MOUNT KISCO, N.Y., June 28, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- David Levy wrote to clients in the June 2018 issue of The Levy Forecast® that market expectations of modest inflation and interest-rate increases are “a fantasy because the only way worker compensation will not accelerate considerably in the year ahead and thereafter is if the expansion is either terminated or seriously impaired for a time.”
The chairman of the independent Jerome Levy Forecasting Center LLC (www.levyforecast.com) warned that pay rate inflation is likely to jolt investors, because “what many people do not fathom is that labor markets do not tighten in a consistent, linear fashion. . . the size of pay raises may well rise startlingly by year-end.”
Levy wrote, in a publication devoted to forecasting and analyzing economic and business conditions since 1949, that rising interest rates would, “in this Big Balance Sheet World, severely undermine global financial conditions and turn down domestic asset markets” well before weakening the economy enough to slow inflation.
Levy also cautioned that escalating trade war developments would mean profits tending toward the low range of the Center’s estimates for the rest of the year, as the potential global financial market and economic disturbances could cause “profits [in seasonally adjusted NIPA terms] to flatten from the second quarter to the third and even slip from the third to the fourth.”
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