The David Lin Report, Released on 10/10/24 (Recorded on 10/9/24)

Danielle DiMartino Booth, CEO of QI Research, discusses the state of the economy, outlook for monetary policy, and major risks to the markets today.

0:00 – Intro
0:50 – Geopolitical risks
2:45 – Reaction to Fed’s 50 bps cut
5:20 – Labor market cooling
10:31 – Foreign workers
11:33 – Bankruptcy cycle
12:50 – Fed monetary policy outlook
14:40 – Welfare
17:30 – Widening deficit
20:35 – Banks’ unrealized losses
22:30 – Declining liquidity
26:00 – Soft vs. Hard landings
28:30 – Stocks vs. Yields
31:00 – Homes and natural disasters
32:10 – Major risks and asset allocation
35:47 – QI Research

Danielle DiMartino Booth is Founder & CEO of QI Research, a research and analytics firm. She spent nine years as an advisor to Richard W. Fisher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Danielle left the Fed in 2015 to found Money Strong, LLC, an economic consulting firm and launched a weekly economic newsletter She is the author of Fed Up: An Insider’s Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America. DiMartino Booth began her career in New York at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Credit Suisse, where she worked fixed income and the public and private equity markets. Danielle earned her BBA as a College of Business Scholar at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She holds an MBA in Finance and International Business from the University of Texas at Austin and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University.

  economy, investing, stocks