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Steen Jakobsen: Get Ready For The Biggest Margin Call In History

• Submitted by Adam Taggart

 And he predicts the Federal Reserve will indeed start to raise rates later this year, surprising the market and taking the wind of out asset prices.

He recommends building cash and waiting to see how the coming storm -- which he calls the "greatest margin call in history" -- plays out:

0% interest rates at $0 down has not created the additional momentum to the economy The Fed was hoping for. The trickle down effect, the wealth effect, has instead made for bigger inequality in society. So I think we're set for a rate hike in either in June or in September. I think this will be the biggest margin call in history on the asset inflation created by the Fed .
 
That's where I differ from most Fed watchers. Everyone else is looking at employment, inflation targeting. I don't think Fed is at all looking at those. They are saying "Listen, the 0% interest rate is getting us absolutely nowhere, we think it's very, very important for us to move to a more neutral place". At the same time we will communicate that we are open-minded to additional programs or whatever needs to be done to secure the long term growth of the economy. But that will be on the down side, not on the up side. And as year has progressed, and I've said this publicly, I think 2015 is already lost in terms of recovery here. And that will take the market by surprise.


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