Central Banksters from around the world artificially goosing the economy trying to make it perform better... then trying to keep it from crashing back... and the cycle continues in ever more extreme fashion.
Here's a great article by Peter Schiff where he gives some of the public predictions he had made in the various papers etc.
Fed to People: It's Not Our Fault
http://seekingalpha.com/article/181774-fed-to-people-its-not-our-fault