CNBC, Released on 6/30/22

Mohamed El-Erian, Allianz chief economic advisor, joins ‘Closing Bell’ to discuss whether consumers will slam the brakes on spending, if the Fed has a choice whether or not to aggressively hike rates and the odds of a hard landing.

“So rather than helping the economy soft land, the Fed now risks actually contributing to a hard landing and that’s of its own making because it’s so late.”

Mohamed El-Erian is the Chief Economic Adviser of Allianz, a multinational financial services company. He is the former CEO and co-Chief Investment Officer of PIMCO, a global investment firm and one of the world’s largest bond funds in the world. Dr. El-Erian also served as a member of the faculty of Harvard Business School. Before joining PIMCO, Dr. El-Erian was a managing director at Salomon Smith Barney/Citigroup in London and before that, he spent 15 years at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. His latest book is The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse.

  economy, Fed, inflation