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Bob Elliott, chief investment officer of Unlimited Funds, joins the podcast to discuss his views on the Federal Reserve, inflation, the midterm elections, and why stocks have entered a long 'slog' for the foreseeable future.
Content Highlights
- Investors have been conditioned for recessions to feature a fast decline in equity markets followed by a rapid recovery. This time around those dynamics are different (3:44);
- There is no chance of a 'Fed pivot' coming anytime soon (7:58);
- What about infighting at the Fed and within the FOMC? (11:03);
- Yes, you need unemployment to increase for there to be any progress with inflation. Higher prices are no longer due to supply chain issues (13:57);
- The Fed will raise either 50bps or 75bps at its next meeting and rates could easily go up to 6% (21:22);
- Background on the guest and his ETF, the Unlimited HFND Multi Strategy Return Tracker ETF. Stock ticker: HFND (26:19);
- The growing disconnect between hedge fund positioning and retail investors: Hedge funds are short bonds, long commodities, bullish gold, and are sitting on a bunch of cash... (36:21);
- The Fed's target rate for inflation is 2%, but that could change. That would bring a myriad of issues... (38:24);
- It's hard to get bullish about longterm bonds: right now and for the foreseeable future (40:54);
- Investors continue to look for reasons that the economy is slowing and the Fed needs to reverse course. There is virtually no evidence of this happening (42:44);
- The midterm elections are likely to lead to a split government. This brings tail risks that few people are talking about (44:50).
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