NOBEL PRIZE WINNER: TRUMP’S REELECTION WOULD BOOST THE MARKETS & POSTPONE RECESSION
According to Nobel Prize winner, Robert Schiller, an election victory for president Donald Trump would not only boost the stock market but postpone the impending and imminent recession. Shiller, who is known for his behavioral finance research, believes Trump’s reelection would “resonate” with the stock market.
The president’s pro-business policies would resonate with Wall Street for another four years, so believes Schiller. “It also seems likely that when Jerome Powell’s term as Fed chairman expires, he’ll bring someone in that he controls more, and bring someone who can stimulate the economy without worrying,” the Yale University economics professor said Monday on CNBC’s “Trading Nation. ”
“It’s also that Trump is a model for extravagant living and big spending. All these things are boosting the stock market,” Shiller added. And he’s correct, but consumers have become “tapped out” thanks to their overspending and reliance on debt. He fails to mention the burden this is placing on everyday people.
However, Shiller did famously predict two of the biggest bubbles of all time: the dot-com bubble and the housing bubble. Both times, he published an edition of his book Irrational Exuberance, which described and predicted each respective bubble. In early March, Shiller gave a 50 percent chance the economy would tip into a recession within 18 months. “We’re past the days where we felt very secure. We had very low volatility for a while,” Shiller said. “We’re now in a period where we’ve been shaken. We’re pulling ourselves together and we have to see where it goes from here.”
A weekend report by Goldman Sachs economists said that president Trump already has a “narrow advantage” in the 2020 election. Not only did it find incumbents generally have a built-in “bonus” of 5 to 6 percentage points in the popular vote, but the economy’s relatively strong performance ahead of the election bodes incredibly well for the president. And while the stock market is rallying since Trump’s victory, his reelection will solely depend on how the voters perceive the market’s rise.
“It’s the question of how people look back at the recent correction,” he said. “There’s another narrative that says these things are precursors to a bigger event.”
Contributed by Mac Slavo of SHTFplan.
