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'Father Of Reaganonomics' Warns "Get Out Of The Market... And Put Your Money In Cash

• https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan

That's the ominous-sounding warning from David Stockman, the so-called "Father of Reaganomics," as he told Fox Business's Neil Cavuto this week that investors ought to get out of the market and retreat to the presumed safety of Treasury bills and cold, hard cash.

"We're in year 10 of the longest business expansion in history. We're increasing the deficit at the very wrong time. They say it's $900 billion this year it'll be $1.2 trillion of borrowing at the same time that the Fed is beginning to shrink its balance sheet, which means they'll be dumping bonds into the market," he said.

As MarketWatch's Mark Decambre notes, here's an exchange between Cavuto and Stockman during the nearly 8-minute segment, in which the businessman cautioned that the end of easy-money policies by the Federal Reserve would ultimately augur ill for a country hopped up on debt and boasting a growing trillion-dollar deficit:


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