In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Wolf Richter discuss:
- Impact Of Fed Tightening
- Likely still underestimated by the market
- Funds Are Trying To Protect Stock Prices
- A futile (in the long run) attempt to prevent losses
- Why Bond Funds Are So Risky
- Much more dangerous than owning bonds outright
- 6% Mortage Rates Will Act As Housing's Kryptonite
- We're not there yet, but getting closer…
Recorded Wed as the market was in full melt-down mode, Chris and Wolf Richter decode the underlying drivers of the sudden reversal, and peer into the future to predict what is most likely to happen next. Both agree that, whether stocks are briefly 'rescued' in the ensuing days, the long-awaited downward re-pricing of the 'Everything Bubble' is nigh.
As Wolf puts it:
The emerging market stock index is down 22% from January. So they have gotten hit pretty hard. There’s this trend from the outside toward the core. So when something deteriorates, it starts at the outside and moves toward the core, the core being the higher quality US financial instruments. So that’s probably a dynamic that has already started. And I agree with you. The central banks removing liquidity is a big thing, and it has a big impact.
And people have said, for years, well, QE didn’t cause stocks to go up.