Stimulus and Your Wealth
Posted October 30, 2020
Household Wealth plunged by a record-breaking $7.2 trillion during the first quarter of 2020. It then recovered all of that and more, $7.6 trillion, during the second quarter. Covid and the lockdowns were responsible for the crash. The Policy Response was responsible for the extraordinary bounce back.
The new Macro Watch video shows how the policy response to the crisis generated the surge in wealth during the second quarter and which asset classes benefited most. It also considers whether the next round of stimulus will create still more wealth or whether it will be less effective than the first round. Finally, this video also highlights what is at stake if there is no more stimulus.
The bottom line is that a large new stimulus bill would be likely to cause the value of the Deposits, Real Estate, Stocks, Mutual Fund Shares and Pension Entitlements owned by Households to increase.
On the other hand, given the high rate of unemployment, without more stimulus, Disposable Personal Income, Personal Consumption Expenditure and, therefore, GDP could all begin to contract again in the first quarter of next year, if not sooner. In that case, a great deal of Wealth would most probably be destroyed. Worst still, much more than just Wealth is at risk.
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