Is the U.S. headed for a recession? This Wall Street bank thinks so
A recession in the U.S. is brewing as the Federal Reserve is taking a more aggressive stance on raising interest rates to clamp down on inflation, according to economists at Deutsche Bank.
With inflation at a 40-year high, they predict the Fed will raise interest rates by half a percentage point during the next three meetings in May, June and July. That’s in line with the Fed’s thinking, according to minutes from the latest meeting.
When the Fed raises rates, it becomes more expensive to borrow money since interest rates on mortgages, credit cards and other loans increase in tandem. By taking such action, the Fed hopes to slow down the economy without causing a recession.
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In this case, it’s going to be unavoidable, the economists said in a note published Tuesday.
The U.S. unemployment rate, meanwhile, ticked down to 3.6% last month, which is just 0.1% higher than the 50-year record low unemployment rate that occurred before the pandemic.
Deutsche is one of the first major banks to sound the recession alarm.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/economy/2022/04/06/recession-deutsche-bank-2023/9489844002/
Legendary investor Jeremy Grantham sees a ‘superbubble’ in markets and expects the S&P 500 to crash 43%. He recommends overseas stocks and cash as havens.
Jeremy Grantham recently diagnosed the fourth US “superbubble” in the past century, and warned the benchmark S&P 500 would crash 43% to around 2,500 after the bubble bursts.
The veteran investor and GMO cofounder explained in a Saturday interview with Fox Business how investors should position their portfolios against a backdrop of historic market speculation.”
“What I would do is make sure you have some cash reserve,” he said. “There may be some great buying opportunities in the next couple of years.”
The market historian has previously said he holds cash so he can deploy it easily, and a small amount of gold and silver.
“Secondly, I would try and avoid US stocks,” Grantham said. “If you have to own some, I would own high-quality. They always do better in a serious shake-up.”
Grantham, who has repeatedly warned investors are caught in a historic bubble, said an imminent crash in the S&P 500 means a credit crisis is brewing.
“So, blue chips are the way to go. Avoid debt. And to the extent you can, avoid the US. It’s the most overpriced market,” he said.
“Real estate is overpriced everywhere in the world. But the stock markets outside the US are curiously not that bad. They’re in a bull market. They’re overpriced mostly, but they’re only normally overpriced,” he added.
He also touted emerging markets, saying traders could find bargains.
“If you look for the cheap stocks, growth versus value; growth has had an unprecedented decade,” he said. “It is probably the turn for cheap stocks again.”
“One of the main reasons I deplore superbubbles – and resent the Fed and other financial authorities for allowing and facilitating them – is the underrecognized damage that bubbles cause as they deflate and mark down our wealth,” Grantham said in a paper released last month.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/legendary-investor-jeremy-grantham-sees-121600816.html
Durham to call former FBI general counsel James Baker to testify in case of former Clinton campaign attorney
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/durham-former-fbi-general-counsel-james-baker-testify-sussmann-case
Durham says CIA found data alleging Trump-Russia connection not ‘technically plausible,’ was ‘user created’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/durham-cia-concluded-data-alleging-trump-russia-connection-not-technically-plausible-user-created
The FBI’s investigation of these allegations nevertheless concluded that there was insufficient evidence to support the allegations of a secret communications channel with Russian Bank-1. In particular, and among other things, the FBI’s investigation revealed that the email
server at issue was not owned or operated by the Trump Organization but, rather, had been administered by a mass marketing email company that sent advertisements for Trump hotels and hundreds of other clients.
https://www.justice.gov/sco/press-release/file/1433511/download
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