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By Gordon T. Long
Accorrding to global economist Richard Duncan, since 1952 every time Total US Real Credit Growth fell below 2%, the US has experienced a recession. This correlation has been marked on 9 separate occassions. We are now below 2% and as a consequence the Federal Reserve will soon have little choice but to make a course correction in the current "Taper" monetary policy.
$2.3 TRILLION IN TOTAL US Y-o-Y CREDIT GROWTH REQUIRED
Approximately $2.3 Trillion in total Y-o-Y credit growth is required. According to Richard Duncan's very detailed tracking at Macro Watch, the Fed will be between $500 and $1T short.
SUB 3% WORLD GDP GROWTH
Sub 3% global growth levels have also been another indicator of major recessionary economic troubles in the US.
PROBLEM COMPOUNDING QUICKLY
There are a number of develpoments that have placed the Federal Reserve and its new Chair Janet Yellin in this awkward policy quandry. One is falling foreign direct investment. FDI is now at Bear Strearns and Lehman lows and getting worse fast, as global GDP has fallen to sub 3% levels.
DRAMATICALLY SLOWING US FOREIGN FLOWS
"Houston, We Have a Problem!"
CONCLUSION
The chart below, taken from a survey of 222 fund managers responsible for a collective $591 billion in assets under management conducted by BofA Merrill Lynch between Feb. 7 and Feb. 13, 2014, shows where investors think we are in the global economic cycle right now. We have overlayed it with our work and sense we are presently in the midst of a major inflection point.
Welcome Ms Yellen! Like Greenspan and Bernanke when they assumed office, you will experience the most taunting challenges of your chairmanship very early in your tenure.
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