He's committed to fending off a recession. (Lawrence Chimerine, senior economic adviser for WEFA Group Inc.)(Review Preview)

While other forecasters try to interpret the tea leaves to best predict what will happen to the economy this year, Lawrence Chimerine appears to be taking a more active posture.

Rather than simply trying to predict whoa this six-year economic expansion, now approaching maturity, will sputter to an inevitable halt, Chimerine is advocating that our political leaders move now to prolong the expansion and fend off a recession.

Chimerine, no neophyte to the world economy, offers his recommendations with a little more insight than your average arm. chair quarterback.

The senior economic adviser for the WEFA Group Inc. in Eddystone, Chimerine was manager of U.S. …