US recession 2024

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Steven Blitz at TS Lombard.


July is when the funds rate finally became tight and Q3 is when QT finally turns restrictive. All the chatter about liquidity and the Fed b/s is just that – QT’s impact always depends on the direction of Treasury financing and nominal growth.

The coming jump in financing needs plus the add of what the Fed is no longer buying will raise real yields for the wrong reasons (increased private capital demands are the right reason) and the negative impact will be seen in capital markets.

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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.