2016 will be known as the period of ______________. (In US society.)

Escalating mass confusion. 

history.

insanity

The first sixteen years of the millennium are already known as the invisible depression. Maybe somebody will make a movie titled "The Great Deception". It will be a slapstick comedy about fat cat bankers trying to pretend the economy is not sick, not sick at all, it just needs more helicopter money.