American Government had many times pushed their economy through making War.
I do believe, facing the fact that Irak is beeing more difficult(and expensive) as thought, that Mr. Obama will not start another one yet.
One good way to push American economy could be making the Euro artificially strong to make American products more attractive and the consequences of it like more jobs and etc..you know. Soon we will have summer (vacation time) and with a "weakened" dollar tourism can bring a lot of money too. We saw already 1.60 in the past and I would not be surprised seen it again.
That´s why I do believe that going up is also an option.
My thinking.