Year of the Pig reflection: How the US economy performed

At the beginning of every Chinese New Year AsianInvestor makes 10 predictions relating to economic, geopolitical or investment issues that will affect how investors make their major decisions. Then, at the end of the year, we look back to how accurate these predictions were.   We begin out lookback to our Year of the Pig predictions by considering how reality reflected our prediction when it came to the durability of the US economy.   Will the US economy suffer a major downturn?…