The Recession formula:
1) Unemployment rate under 4.5% ---Check it's at 3.6% as of March
2) Fed is feebly attempting to un-fuck QE since 2013. These shots of 50 basis points are not enough; a true adrenaline shot is needed; 500 basis points!! ---Check fed raising rates
3) US GDP below 2-3% ---Check its at 1.4%
The explanation is simple - Everyone is at work making money, markets been on a tear for 10 years, everyone has become an expert in trading and investing. Can't run into anyone that isn't involved with the market. This scares me. Inflation has run rampant devaluing the dollar causing prices to surge, the stock market particularly getting a double dose of adrenaline, one arm with the Fed pump, the other from the millions of retail "traders" that have entered the markets. Companies have seen north of 87% revenue growth due to low interest rates to finance money and record low unemployment to qualify to boost stock prices even more. But now with the Fed trying to pull their heads out of their assess and raising rates, people can no longer finance money for purchasing power. Now the demand for all market classes is dwindling. Now the big box companies and soon the small businesses are going to see the 6–12-month projections and realize that they can 't continue production at the rate that they are currently producing. Now they have to consolidate, tightening the belt and letting people go. This is where things start to pick up. Now the car note, mortgage grocery bill can't be paid, and the lifestyle cannot be maintained because the revenue source is gone. Production employees can no longer use services companies anymore because they can't afford it. Those small businesses and even large ones that provide those services, they dry up and those employees now join the unemployment express straight to hell...and we haven't even touched on company pension plans and 401ks that will be thrashed as well.
The pieces to the recession are key and you need all three for it to work. We have officially reached that point with the GDP. I am no financial advisor; I do not hold any accredited accolades; I did not graduate college. II am a student though of those that have ridden this ride and have come out on the other side. I hope that you head my warning and have secured your finances - and not in crypto either. Nothing is going to be safe from this move down - stay cash heavy because there is going to be a fire sale on everything!!
The Fed has no more moves but to raise interest rates. The game is up, the pain is only going to get worse and those financing right now especially on property is going to feel really shitty come a year from now imo. Always could be proven wrong but history always repeats itself and right now all the writing is on the wall. If you are old to remember the 2008 -2009 recession it was a painfully long climb out of that hole. This is going to be 1980's all over again but exponentially worse due to the amount "players" that are involved now. This pandemic sell off is not the same thing...we quickly recovered, and it was event driven. This mess that we are about to enter will not be quick, will be global and will take a very long time to recover from. As always, the market prevails, and light will shine again but we have reached max altitude for now and have stalled the aircraft.