Maybe this time around, we will be lucky and markets will continue to rally despite a recession and despite any financial market crisis.
Author: Desmond Lachman, Opinion Contributor
Markets give thumbs down to the Fed
If ever there was a time for the Fed to be humble and nimble, it must be now.
The Federal Reserve is the rest of the world’s problem
The Fed’s aggressive pursuit of its narrow mandate is complicating an already difficult economic situation in the rest of the world.
Monetary policy lessons for the Federal Reserve
The Fed risks producing a hard economic landing by failing to recognize the long lags with which monetary policy operates.
Clouds gather over the world economy
Troubles are coming to the world economy not as single spies but in battalions.
With recession looming, the Fed may be doing more harm than good
The Fed is putting itself on a substantial monetary policy tightening path at the very time that there are many indications of real trouble ahead.
History will not judge the Powell Fed kindly
It would be an understatement to say that the Federal Reserve has a poor forecasting record.
On our way to a hard economic landing
If our economy succumbs to a deep economic recession, inflation will become the least of our economic problems.
Is this China’s Lehman Brothers moment?
For the sake of both the Chinese and the global economy, let’s hope the Chinese economic authorities do not repeat the U.S. Lehman mistake.