Kitco News, Released on 3/25/25

The soft landing narrative is collapsing – but few are willing to admit it. Danielle DiMartino Booth, CEO and Chief Strategist at QI Research, joins Jeremy Szafron of Kitco News to expose why the U.S. may already be in a private-sector recession. From rising layoffs and corporate bankruptcies to tightening credit and collapsing consumer demand, DiMartino Booth reveals the economic cracks the mainstream continues to ignore. She also explains why the Federal Reserve may be misdiagnosing inflation, why Wall Street’s forecasts are dangerously late, and what gold’s breakout is signaling about investor confidence.

00:00 Introduction: Economy Overview
01:16 Recession Predictions and Market Outlook
06:20 Corporate Distress and Bankruptcies
09:28 Federal Reserve’s Role and Policy Impact
18:43 Gold Market Analysis

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, gold, recession