BREAKDOWN: 100% Chance of Recession
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
That’s what Bloomberg economists’ forecasting models are predicting.
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On today’s episode of “The Breakdown,” NLW looks at the various signals markets are grappling with, including continued hawkish commentary from the Fedeal Reserve, financial modeling that keeps increasing the likelihood of recession in 2023, better-than-expected data in Q3 earnings but painful data coming from the housing market.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:09.2 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:15.0 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, circle, and FtX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:22.9 | What's going on, guys? It is Wednesday, October 19th, and today we are talking about the 100% |
| 0:28.6 | chance of recession that markets and analysts are now anticipating. Before we get into that, |
| 0:34.4 | however, if you are enjoying the breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, |
| 0:40.9 | come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit.ly slash |
| 0:45.4 | breakdown pod. Also a disclosure, as always, in addition to them being a sponsor of the show, |
| 0:50.1 | I also work with FTX. All right, folks, well, today we have a ton of news from markets. |
| 0:57.6 | We are out here getting a sense of how people are feeling. |
| 1:00.8 | Are they optimistic? |
| 1:01.8 | Are they bearish? |
| 1:02.6 | And we're going to start with something that I think will probably not be at all shocking to listeners of the breakdown. |
| 1:10.2 | According to new economic projections from |
| 1:12.2 | Bloomberg, a U.S. recession in the next year is now a certainty. The latest probability |
| 1:17.6 | models by economist Anna Wong and Eliza Winger forecast a 100% chance of a recession in the U.S. |
| 1:23.1 | by October next year. That's up from about 65% in previous models. A separate Bloomberg survey of 42 |
| 1:30.0 | economists predicted the probability of recession within a year at 60%, up from 50% a month earlier. |
| 1:36.0 | According to the Bloomberg model, recession risk is also up on shorter timeframes. The 11th month |
| 1:40.9 | risk is at 73%, which is up from 30%, and the 10-month risk is now at 25% up from 0%. |
| 1:46.8 | The Bloomberg model takes broad-based economic and financial indicators as inputs, some of which have significantly deteriorated over the last month, particularly industrial production metrics. |
| 1:57.2 | Mohamed El-Ery and the president at Queens College, Cambridge, writes, |
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