America has no better than a 10 percent chance of avoiding economic "armageddon.''I miss the 20th century...
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Roach sees a 30 percent chance of a slump soon and a 60 percent chance that ``we'll muddle through for a while and delay the eventual armageddon.''
The chance we'll get through OK: one in 10. Maybe.
In a nutshell, Roach's argument is that America's record trade deficit means the dollar will keep falling. To keep foreigners buying T-bills and prevent a resulting rise in inflation, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan will be forced to raise interest rates further and faster than he wants.
The result: U.S. consumers, who are in debt up to their eyeballs, will get pounded.
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
OH... CRAP!
Stephen Roach, the chief economist at investment banking giant Morgan Stanley predicts:
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