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Steen Jakobsen: 60% Probability Of Recession In The Next 18 Months

Steen Jakobsen: 60% Probability Of Recession In The Next 18 Months

Authored by Adam Taggart via PeakProsperity.com,

Steen Jakobsen back on, Chief Investment Officer of Saxo Bank, returns to the podcast this week to share with us the warning signs of slowing economic growth he's seeing in major markets all over the world.

In his view, the world economy is sputtering badly. So badly, that he's confident predicting a global recession by 2018 -- or sooner:

"It's A Series Of Rolling Mini-Bubbles"

"It's A Series Of Rolling Mini-Bubbles"

Authored by Kevin Muir via The Macro Tourist blog,

Think back to earlier this year. At the time, the market was convinced Trump was about to usher in a new wave of free market nirvana. Hedge fund managers piled into small cap equity long positions, confident the pro-growth policies would fuel a massive outperformance for the Russell 2000 index. Here is a chart I ran in my piece “The reality is something in between” which shows the extent of the small cap run:

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