How’s the U.S. Economy Doing Now? The real GDP Nowcast relies on soft data such as consumer and business surveys and hard data such as retail sales and industrial production. It forecasts the growth of real GDP. At full employment, GDP returns to the level of potential GDP. If a recession were to occur today,…
Is Trump Right to Criticize Powell? We don’t think so, because: – Interest rates are still near zero in real terms and below real GDP – The rise in Fed rates has very few visible negative effects in the USA – And at full employment, GDP returns to the level of potential GDP
Why Allianz’s Mohamed El-Erian is not concerned about a recession Mohamed El-Erian is the chief economic adviser at Allianz. He shares his view about the economy, the Fed and the markets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS9DsaqVHlU
Here are Blackstone vice chairman Byron Wien’s predictions for 2019 Byron Wien, vice chairman at Blackstone, talks about the Fed and his prediction for the US market in 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7UPX4N3wi0
The Kiril Sokoloff Interviews: Stanley F. Druckenmiller Stanley F. Druckenmiller, founder of Duquesne Capital, speaks with Kiril Sokoloff about life, the current stock market, the FED, his investments, populism, globalization, China, algorithms, and how he would like to be remembered. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-MlrpoMig0