Kitco News, Released on 3/23/23

Danielle DiMartino Booth, CEO of Quill Intelligence and Author of “Fed Up,” joins Michelle Makori, Lead Anchor and Editor-in-Chief at Kitco News, to discuss the Federal Reserve’s March rate hike of 25 bps, and why Booth believes that “more bank failures” are on the horizon as Fed Chair Jerome Powell continues to tighten monetary policy. Booth also provides her economic outlook, and suggests that investors can “be bold” in allocating more than 10% of their portfolio to gold, which she forecasts will rise in the midst of ongoing financial stress.

0:00 – Fed rate hike
5:06 – Fed pivot?
6:57 – ‘Banking crisis’
16:07 – Fed’s balance sheet
18:54 – Commercial real estate and banking
21:36 – Economic outlook
22:48 – Investment implications

Danielle DiMartino Booth is CEO & Chief Strategist for Quill Intelligence LLC, 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.

  banking, banking crisis, federal reserve, gold