The 2015 black swan bell curve

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Here it is from Society Generale:

SocGen Black Swan Chart

For the visually impaired, that reads on the downside

  1. Ukraine crisis spills over to broader disruption (5%)
  2. Deflate-thy-neighbor, or systemic EM crisis (10%)
  3. Lower-than-expected price multipliers (15%)
  4. Sharp repricing of G4 term premiums (20%)
  5. UK election leads to Brexit vote (25%), Brexit (10%)
  6. China hard-landing (30%)

And the up:

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  1. Higher than expected price multipliers (15%)
  2. Euro area fast track reform and growth friendly fiscal policies (10%)

Where’s the Grexit which should be as high as China? Or maybe that’s no longer a tail risk! On the upside, number 1 is a base case for me as the Fed delays.

About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.