Moody’s explores the end of the US business cycle

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From Moody’s today:

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In short, too much corporate borrowing is overhauling actual business conditions in a hurry and that does not typically end well. Especially so when one adds that much of that debt has gone into capital management trickery instead of the real economy which would have boosted demand.

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.