Commercial Printing Outlook : Healing Light Cast on 2011

The Fed is now gambling that down the road it can take money back out quickly enough to avoid having things get out of hand and cause inflation, the industry economist surmises.

There's also the risk that the current verbal backlash from foreign governments could turn into trade wars. "If we come out on the right side of those two issues, we could still see six or seven years of growth after this recession before we go into the next one," he adds.