ITM Trading, Released on 1/13/25

“I’d like to invite members of the Federal Open Market Committee to hop on LinkedIn and to read about the plight of so many of those who are out of work,” says Danielle DiMartino Booth, CEO & Chief Strategist for QI Research. In our 2025 Outlook Series, Booth sits down with Daniela Cambone to share the growing concerns over the disconnect between Fed policy and the challenges faced by everyday Americans in the labor market. She also issues a stark warning about the risks in the U.S. banking sector, highlighting a troubling trend of ‘double defaults’—where the same property or asset defaults twice—particularly in commercial real estate and corporate bonds. Don’t miss this deep dive into the critical economic issues shaping 2025.

0:00 U.S. debt
3:13 Fed policy in 2025
5:02 Disconnect between Fed policy and real economy
5:53 Housing market
7:23 Labor Market
8:46 U.S. economic slowdown
11:06 Tariffs
11:58 Banking sector risks
13:51 Gold

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, economy, gold