Not exact matches
So the
stagflation Trump could produce
now would be like what happened in the US in the 1970s but with a postrecession twist.
«While the recent downtick in growth coupled with the uptick in various inflation indicators from wages to commodity prices, has been relatively modest, investors are
now more open to the risk of
stagflation than previously,» he said.
12) If you find the US in
stagflation one year from
now, how will your policy be different from that of the Fed in the late»70s?
I would not try to assume that stocks are a good inflation hedge... Corporations have to buy raw materials and have to feed hungry workers... When the price of oil and foold go up it is very hard for corporations to improve on earnings, so if you think about it, much of the benefits of a rise in CPI are negated by a rise in raw materials prices... Put more bluntly, we are in a period of
stagflation right
now.
Eventually, Vietnam,
stagflation, Watergate, leading into the tech bubble and burst, leading to the financial crisis, and
now here we are today.
My concern in distinguishing between
stagflation and inflation is that I am largely sitting on the sidelines right
now because the deals I see aren't meeting my thresholds for returns.