CoreMacro
BCA’s flagship global macro and investment strategy platform, helping investors anticipate regime shifts, connect signals across regions and asset classes, and navigate the world’s most difficult macro questions.
The Fed says that to get back to 2 percent inflation, the US unemployment rate must increase by ‘just’ 0.6 percent through 2023-24. All well and good you might think, except that the Fed is forecasting something that has been unachievable for at least 75 years! Is the Fed gaslighting us? And what does it mean for investment strategy?
We share our thoughts about some of the less-discussed topics that came up across three weeks of face-to-face discussions with investors. We retain our conviction that the American consumer’s demise has been greatly exaggerated, and it continues to underpin our constructive near-term view on the US economy.
This week’s Global Investment Strategy report titled Fourth Quarter 2022 Strategy Outlook: A Three-Act Play discusses the outlook for the global economy and financial markets for the rest of 2022 and beyond.