Has The Next Recession Begun?
Posted April 7, 2015
Recent economic data has been startlingly bad. The Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow model suggests US GDP will grow by only 0.1% during the first quarter.
- The financial markets are positioned for interest rate hikes. How would they respond if this new economic “soft patch” turns into a recession – as I expect it will?
- If the economy continues to sink, how long will it be before the Fed replaces talk of rate hikes with hints of QE?
- What would the launch of QE 4 mean for the price of stocks, bonds, commodities and currencies?
- Timing in everything. Is it still too early – and too dangerous – to bet on QE 4?
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Hi Richard, another excellent set of charts and commentary on the threat of a looming recession. You expect the Fed to launch QE4 later this year to stimulate the economy, and it comes with risks as you point out. Japan, perhaps, is several years ahead of us in the QE game and they have overtly resorted to buying Japanese listed stocks as another form of QE. Do you expect our Fed to resort to such purchases, especially if QE4 does not have the intended effect?
Thanks Michael. I think QE 4 would work in pushing up stock prices again. However, if it did not, I would not be surprised it the Fed began buying stocks directly as the Bank of Japan has done. Of course they might do it without letting the public know. I do believe that there is a Plunge Protection Team that would intervene to prevent another October 1987 type 23% overnight stock market crash.