Albert Edwards: Everything bubble about to burst

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Albert Edwards of Society General returns to slam the Fed. I will only add that, for much of the world, pandemic inflation has proven temporary and is about to implode spectacularly. What has embedded inflation now is the Ukraine war… 

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Let us imagine for a moment the US and global economy slides into recession for all the well-versed reasons. Let us imagine too that the “Everything Bubble” in financial and property assets that the Fed and other central banks have created with their ultra-loose policies, bursts with unpredictable and dislocative results. What then?

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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.