Financial Trends: What’s In and What’s Out in 2017

Now that 2016 is over, you may be reflecting on what went well, and what didn’t. Were you unemployed? Did you carry some debt? Land a gig? Buy a new home? With unemployment at a nine-year low, jobs being created at an average of 180,000 per month, the economy growing at better than three percent in the most recent quarter and some signs of a pickup in inflation, it makes sense that we got an interest rate hike last month, and that we’ll get a few more in 2017.