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Question #1 for 2025: How much will the economy grow in 2025? Will there be a recession in 2025?

Calculated Risk

How much will the economy grow in 2025? A year ago, I argued that "the economy will avoid recession" in 2024, and that a soft landing was the likely outcome. Here are the Ten Economic Questions for 2025 and a few predictions: Question #1 for 2025: How much will the economy grow in 2025? Or will the economy lose jobs?

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#5 – “The US is a Minority of Global GDP”

Meb Faber Research

At around 25% of the total, or approximately $30 trillion, the US is the world’s dominant economy. However, many investors assume the share of the pie is much bigger. Likewise, if you ask investors what share of GDP do the emerging markets represent, 90% underestimate that emerging markets are a MAJORITY of global GDP.

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Three Things – Downgrading the Weekend

Discipline Funds

I still remember S&P downgrading the USA in 2011. S&P downgraded the USA In 2011 and they had egg on their face just a year later. And that’s assuming the economy is even strong enough at that point for consumers to eat the full cost. It’s deja vu all over again for those of us who have been around too long.

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Camp Kotok: Rates, Fed & Dollar (Drink!)

The Big Picture

In the current era of low rates, low inflation, and modest economic expansion, the Fed’s rate policy is having little to no impact on stimulating the broader economy. The economy is having the expected textbook reaction to tariffs, treating them as an unnecessary tax on consumer spending, both here and abroad.

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The Broken Clock Investor: Always Warning, Rarely Winning

Dear Mr. Market

Peter Schiff Gold Bug and Fed Critic Extraordinaire Ongoing theme : Hyperinflation is coming, the dollar will collapse, and the Fed is destroying the economy. Notable prediction : A 1987-style crash is coming first said in 2011 and repeatedly ever since. Marc Faber (Dr. Doom) The Market Obituary Writer Claims : U.S.

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At The Money: Jeff Hirsch on Presidential Investing Cycles

The Big Picture

And in 2011, he was the author of the book, Superboom, Why the Dow Jones Will Hit 39,000 and How You Can Profit From It. Barry Ritholtz : 1967 seems like a long time, different economy, different market, different credit cycle. It’s how the government manipulates the economy to stay in power. I’m Barry Ritholtz.

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Transcript: Richard Bernstein, CEO / CIO of RBA

The Big Picture

One of the things that I wrote about extensively, even when I was at Maryland through my entire career, is I’ve argued that equity investors spend too much time worrying about the economy and not enough time worrying about corporate profits. Fortunately, the overall economy does not do that on a regular basis.