How tariffs could trigger a US debt crisis

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Steven Blitz at TSLombard is excellent at times.


If it were simply a matter of dealing with the economy as it is, the Fed’s choices would be simpler as well. One more cut to get the funds rate Taylor Rule neutral and then stop.

The road to recession still runs through the asset side of the balance sheet, and the Fed has no desire to sacrifice the equity market on the altar of 2% inflation.

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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.