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2008 PTSD VS THE GHOSTS OF THE 1970S
31 Mar 2023 - Dario PerkinsCentral banks have been raising interest rates aggressively for just over a year. During that period – the fastest and broadest monetary tightening episode in history – investors have been anxiously waiting for.
Shorter and Less Variable
02 Feb 2023 - Dario PerkinsThere is a bull market in sellside economists predicting recessions. Ask any of them why they believe 2023 will produce an even worse macro environment than 2022 and you can be sure the words “long and variable lags”.
Things that won't happen in 2023
21 Dec 2022 - Dario PerkinsSince we first published our annual “Things that won’t happen” outlook in 2015, writing outlandish non-forecasts has become considerably more difficult. Back then, nobody would have taken us seriously if we had said.
Inflation was always the Endgame
04 Nov 2022 - Dario PerkinsThere is beautiful irony in macroeconomics, a sort of inherent Minsky dynamic, or universal Goodhart law, that means that just when everyone thinks something is definitively true, it turns out to be spectacularly false..
#Federal Reserve #Monetary Policy #Interest Rates #Recession #Unemployment
How High for Unemployment in the coming US Recession
26 Jul 2022 - Steven BlitzThere are any number of ways to dissect the spread between the 7% job openings rate and 3.5% unemployment, but the needed drop in demand’s contribution to current inflation occurs when this spread turns negative..
#Federal Reserve #Monetary Policy #Interest Rates #Recession #Unemployment
Optimism: Mild US recession followed by a recovery and 2% inflation
18 Jul 2022 - Steven BlitzThe story of this cycle does not end when recession begins, the story, in fact, begins with the direction Fed policy takes once unemployment starts to rise. Recession of some sort was always inevitable to curb.
#Federal Reserve #Monetary Policy #Inflation #US Economy
The nightmare scenario for central banks
14 Jul 2022 - Dario PerkinsEvery investor wants to know whether central banks are prepared to cause a recession in order to force inflation down. Surely, officials are bluffing, right? But think about it from the central banker’s perspective..
#Central Banks #Monetary Policy #Eurozone #United Kingdom
Commodities: burden of proof is with the bulls
07 Jul 2022 - Konstantinos VenetisThe breadth of the commodity rally started narrowing in early March, when the dust from Russia-Ukraine shock began to settle. Industrial metals topped out first and rolled over decisively in April – around the same time.
#Federal Reserve #China #Commodities
The year of the payback
20 Jun 2022 - Konstantinos VenetisThe markets remain caught in the pincer movement between a hawkish Fed and slowing world growth: 2022 is “payback year” following the outsized gains of 2021. Inflation looks like it is about to peak but at the same time.
#Federal Reserve #Monetary Policy #Inflation #China #OPEC
FOMC commits to recession - are they late on this too?
16 Jun 2022 - Steven BlitzPowell told us policy is going to create a recession, but soft peddled it enough to leave markets to figure that out for themselves. After all, the FOMC is still very much in the clench of a dance between its objective.
#Federal Reserve #Monetary Policy #Recession #US Economy
