What would Nouriel Roubini do if he was faced with the choice between writing
something short and writing something bullish? Today he spends almost 5,000
words wondering
what will happen to stocks if the US economy goes into a recession. (You’ll
never guess what direction he thinks they’re headed in.) Along the way he revisits
what happened to the stock market during the third quarter of this year:
The August liquidity and credit shock severely tested the stock market downward;
then you had a first sucker’s rally on August 16th when the Fed announced
the switch from a tightening bias towards an easing bias. A second phase of
this sucker’s rally occurred on September 18th when the Fed surprised the
markets with a 50bps Fed Funds rate cut rather than the 25bps that the market
expected. Then equities kept on rising, in spite of worsening economic and
credit news, all the way until October 9th.
I wonder if Nouriel might get out his charts and tell us what he’d expect stocks
to do during a quarter in which the economy grows
at a 4.9% rate.