re: Muh Dow is slowly losing all the gains it made since November

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Well, okay then. In that case, why did you butt in to begin with?

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Mostly because I think gthog is an angry old man poster. Oops. I did let it out.

Long Term growth rates are pretty poor at the moment (<2%) driven heavily by labor shortages & population shifts

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Long Term growth rates are pretty poor at the moment (<2%) driven heavily by labor productivity and slowing population growth

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Silly

I'm not going to spend a lot of time rehashing old and well known stuff here

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nah, you're going to make a strong and unsupported claim, pretend it was universally accepted, and pretty much bail on defending it

like by offering up 4 articles you not-so-quickly googled by some pretty obscure writers

none of which actually predicted a recession 2017

let alone demonstrate that a recession was generally expected

(here's the closest that they came: "But it does suggest that 2017 is a reasonably good guess for the year of the next recession.")

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I'm not going to spend a lot of time rehashing old and well known stuff here

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It was well known that GDP was going to decrease for two consecutive quarters in 2017?

At some point America's day of reckoning with our debt is going to come as well (likely in the middle of the next recession which is going to significantly tie the government's ability to act during it)

Not really, as long as we pay the interest on our debt, keep interest rates low and those suckers overseas keep buying our bonds we are good. If any country that holds our bonds, like China want to go to war, we eliminate their bonds, this destroy their investments and their economies. Our debt to GDP is at or near where it’s been for 40 years and many other countries are much worse than us. Our debt seems high because we are a large economy.

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you're going to make a strong and unsupported claim, pretend it was universally accepted

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Universally accepted? Nah.
Little of this type thing in predictive economics is "universally accepted".

E.g., in August 2008, there likely were financial experts painting a rosy or stable picture for the remainder of 2008.

The fact remains that, prior to the election, a litany of pundits on both CNBC and Bloomberg as well as in print media predicted an oncoming recession in 3rd or 4thQ 2017. Those who didn't, anticipated very slow growth or stagnation instead.

None, at least none that I can recall, predicted anything approaching a 30% 5400pt Y2Y market rise immediately following the election. Similarly none, at least none that I can recall, predicted a Trump Presidency.

Again, the anticipation was for a Hillary Presidency, along with tepid economic growth followed by recession. Sorry that rustles your cockles.

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offering up 4 articles you not-so-quickly googled by some pretty obscure writers

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Search term "Recession in 2017"
Timeframe parameters "Nov 1, 2014-Nov 1, 2016"
About 147,000 results (0.22 seconds)

The 4 citations were Forbes, Fortune, Bloomberg, and HuffPo.
They were the first 4 on the page.
I guess I do realize in economics, HuffPo could be considered 'obscure', but I figured you'd be familiar with it as a source.