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Will There Be A Recession in 2020, Or Not

If there is enough concern that the first scenario of a pending recession is believed by the Fed, then they will likely pause in March or June.

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Professional economists, some on the slightly left, forecast a recession in mid to late 2020. Here is their rationale. Labor shortages and cost increases in wages and imports will cause increasing inflation in 2019. That will cause the Fed to raise three times. The 10-year will rise to a level that housing and other development will be heavily impacted and continue a downward path. Leveraged loans, which are basically subordinated floating rate junk debt, will fall into default. The mortgage and shadow bank market will lose liquidity and freeze up. The stock market will decline further, thereby raising the cost of capital for public companies and losses to investors. Economic growth in the EU and other areas will continue to be weak. The fiscal stimulus of the tax cuts and budget deficits we now experience have added 1% to GDP in 2018 and will again in 2019, but by 2020 they will no longer provide the extra lift to the economy. Recession will then occur by mid-year 2020, just before the election. While all of this is a valid potential; scenario, there are other possible scenarios.

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Joel Ross

Joel Ross

Joel Ross began his career in Wall St as an investment banker in 1965, handling corporate advisory matters for a variety of clients. During the seventies he was CEO of North American operations for a UK based conglomerate, and sat on the parent company board. In 1981, he began his own firm handling leveraged buyouts, investment banking and real estate financing. In 1984 Ross began providing investment banking services and arranging financing for real estate transactions with his own firm, Ross Properties, Inc. In 1993 Ross and a partner, Lexington Mortgage, created the first Wall St hotel CMBS program in conjunction with Nomura. They went on to develop a similar CMBS program for another major Wall St investment bank and for five leading hotel companies. Lexington, in partnership with Mr. Ross established a hotel mortgage bank table funded by an investment bank, and making all CMBS hotel loans on their behalf. In 1999 he formed Citadel Realty Advisors as a successor to Ross Properties Corp., focusing on real estate investment banking in the US, UK and Paris. He has closed over $3.0 billion of financings for office, hotel, retail, land and multifamily projects. Ross is also a founder of Market Street Investors, a brownfield land development company, and has been involved in the acquisition of notes on defaulted loans and various REO assets in conjunction with several major investors. Ross was an adjunct professor in the graduate program at the NYU Hotel School. He is a member of Urban Land Institute and was a member of the leadership of his ULI council. In 1999, he conceived and co-authored with PricewaterhouseCoopers, the Hotel Mortgage Performance Report, a major study of hotel mortgage default rates.

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