We Need a Real Leader By Hank Silverberg 2018 is in the books. As I wrote last week, it was NOT a good year, though certainly not the worst either. Is there hope for 2019? I’d like to answer that with some humor, but I’m not Dave Barry and I lost my sense of humor about two hours into the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. Many things went wrong this past year. Though the economy has been running at high speed with low unemployment, there’s a good chance it will run out of gas in 2019, or worse, crash into a tree because those driving it have been careless. Just this past month, the President created volatility in the Stock Market simply by attacking, in a TWEET, the Federal Reserve Board’s interest rate decisions. And for much of the year he wreaked havoc on the global economy by imposing tariffs on certain foreign goods, prompting retaliatory tariffs by both friend and foe. Those tariffs may spell real trouble for the world economy in 2019 if they continue.