Cool Video: Dollar and Fed

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Marc Chandler
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I joined Tom Keene and Marty Schenker (chief content officer) on the set of Bloomberg TV this morning. Schenker discussed some of the geopolitical issues in the Middle East, and Keene asked about the impact on the dollar.

I expressed my concern that the chief threat to the dollar’s role in the world economy is the several administrations have increasing weaponized access to the dollar and the dollar funding market. It used to be a public good, a utility if you will. However, since 9/11 or so, the US has increasingly used it to punish behavior, it does not like and reward friends.  This provides a significant incentive to find an alternative.

The second issue that we discussed was the outlook for the US economy and the Federal Reserve. I see the end of the record-long business expansion in the US. Instead of guessing about a recession, which does not seem to have an objective definition–and the official arbiter in the US, the National Bureau of Economic Research does not use the rule-of-thumb of two consecutive quarterly contractions in GDP–I posit the economy is rolling over. This will, I suggest, prompt the Fed to cut rates possibly three times before it moves to the sidelines ahead of next November’s election. I look for a cut this week and two in the first half of next year.

About Marc Chandler

He has been covering the global capital markets in one fashion or another for more than 30 years, working at economic consulting firms and global investment banks. After 14 years as the global head of currency strategy for Brown Brothers Harriman, Chandler joined Bannockburn Global Forex, as a managing partner and chief markets strategist as of October 1, 2018.

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