Richard Berner
Richard Berner
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Why should people hold crude in tank farms if they think the price is going to come down?
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Certainly, current policy is ultra-accommodative and no policy-maker believes that it is consistent with price stability,
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I think the surprise will be that housing prices and housing sales will decelerate, but the economy will do just fine.
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Home prices will rust, not bust, for the next few years.
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The issue is does OPEC think the global economy is strong enough to withstand the change in price. It just so happens that the economies that are seeing the biggest price increases -- the United States and China -- are also the strongest.
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Energy prices will have to fall substantially and growth will have to improve to erase the feeling that the growth/inflation mix will be unpleasant.
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There's still quite a bit of slack in the economy, and you can't push through prices until you eliminate that slack.
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I don't think home values will crash -- they will rust, not bust. Demographics have underpinned demand, courtesy of a wave of immigration in the past 16 years that reduced supply, and you don't see the speculative overhang that could contribute to a bust in home values.
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Both sides seem to be pretty well entrenched in their positions, which would mean the economic effects could be rather appreciable.
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Upside inflation risks may require that the Fed move promptly and perhaps a little more forcefully to ensure that inflation and inflation expectations stay low.
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I still see that companies went overboard in slashing their work force in an effort to cut costs and to eliminate the hiring excesses of the 1990s. I think we have a shortfall of about 1.8 million jobs to make up.
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We now expect the Fed to increase the federal funds rate to 5.25% by September rather than stop at 5%.
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If we are right that both the pace of economic activity and corporate earnings are still fraught with near-term, downside risk, equity values and risk spreads will carry a recession uncertainty premium for some time -- a premium that the Fed will still want to counter.
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With many people fearing a profitless recovery, earnings will probably surprise to the upside.