Recessions function primarily as market share redistribution events
“Recessions are market share redistribution events.”
Vasavada: 60% chance of a recession in late 2025 or early 2026
“If it's not this year, it would be late, like Q-three, Q-four it'll probably be early next year.
What do you think the current odds are on that?
I would say, 60% chance of a recession.”
Lemkin: Zero chance of a US economic recession by end of 2025
“There's no chance we have a recession at the end of the year. There's just no chance.”
Lee: Waterfall stock market declines almost always produce V-shaped recoveries without recessions
“Almost every waterfall decline is a V-shaped bounce unless there's a recession. So that's why we got so keyed up on this high-yield market, because if we fall, but we don't have a recession, that just means you, everyone just panicked. They did a fire-ready ai…”
Chamath: Cutting government waste spending will reveal a US technical recession
“As Doge sort of slows down that money flow, and as the consensus in Congress gets to a better budget, I think that you're going to see that the government was probably responsible for a hundred to a 150 basis points of just waste. And if you take that out. You…”
Housel: Fewer recessions lead directly to larger subsequent economic downturns
“So it's like the fewer recessions that you have, the bigger the next recession is going to be.”
Brown: The Fed sought a recession to push people back to work
“They never said it, but that was the explicit policy aim. We need to crash this economy to get people back to their jobs. It's crazy. I mean, it didn't work. They weren't able to do it, thank God. We got inflation down anyway despite their efforts”
Padelford: The pizza industry is essentially recession-proof
“Macroeconomically, it is somewhat quote unquote, recession proof, downturn proof, because like when things are bad, you order pizza. When things are good, you order pizza, right? Funerals, pizza, weddings, pizza.”
Lonsdale: Recessions are necessary to prune unproductive parts of the economy
“Recessions are actually good to have every once in a while. They clean out a lot of nonsense. You know, what happens is there's a lot of resources being used for things that are not productive in the economy, and you need a sensor mechanism. You need certain t…”
Gerstner: Rate cuts preceding recession fears historically cause market selloffs
“But remember, historically, rate cuts that are preceding a recession or fears about a recession are oftentimes sold, right? It doesn't cause the market to go up. It actually causes the market to go down.”
Chamath: The United States is currently in an economic recession
“I think we're in a recession”
Companies maintaining advertising spend during recessions capture most recovery market share
“Consumer studies of those recessions have showed That the companies that didn't cut their ads had in recovery captured the most market share.”
Chamath Palihapitiya: Rick's Cabaret stock price presaged the last two recessions
“What's interesting about the Rick's Cabaret stock price is that it has presaged the last two recessions.”
Calacanis: Over half of Americans believe the US is in a recession
“More than half of Americans think we're in a recession.”
Bimani: A Recession Has Already Started and Will Hit Hard Soon
“Right now, we're getting ready for the recession. I know it started. People are not fully aware of it, but it's going to hit hard in the next couple of months.”
Housel: Economy Will See 6 to 10 Recessions Over Next 30 Years
“If you're going to be in this business for another 30 years, if you're lucky, if things are good, we'll probably have at least six or seven or 10 more recessions.”
Sacks: B2B software industry recession has bottomed out
“I do think that the whole B to B software industry definitely went through a recession, but fortunately, I think we bottomed out and are starting to see green shoots now.”
Sacks: Biden likely wins 2024 rematch against Trump barring recession or Ukraine collapse
“I think right now it looks like we're on track to have a Biden-Trump rematch, and right now Biden probably looks like he's gonna win, barring a recession happening or the Ukrainian side collapsing in, in the war.”
Sacks: US will still enter a recession despite big tech earnings
“I'm sticking by it. I think we're still gonna have a recession, but it is an interesting paradox here.”
Spiller: There will be a recession by the end of 2023
“And that's kind of the expectation going into this year is by the time we're going out of this year, there will be a recession.”
Ivascyn: PIMCO expects US core inflation in high 2% range by year-end
“In the spread sectors, our base case economic view is reasonably constructive. U.S. Inflation heading back down to the high two level on the core side at the end of the year. Based on recent constructive economic data, slow growth, basically a fifty-fifty chan…”
Pujji: Macroeconomic recessions are not valid excuses for startup sales failures
“Recession is the economy goes down by three percent, sort of up by three percent. So we go from being a 20 trillion to being a 19.5 trillion or 20.5 trillion. Like, I just, I personally just don't believe in that effect. Like, you think it's an excuse? Yeah. W…”
Chamath: The recession will end in mid-2024
“Mid-twenty-four is when the recession ends, and you need to give yourself two to three quarters of buffer so that you can go and raise around, which takes a quarter to two quarters.”
Codie Sanchez predicts a double-dip recession with rising inflation
“Well, I think we're in the first part of a recession. That'll probably be a double-dip recession and we'll actually see inflation come back up again. That's my assertion.”
Sacks: US will experience a severe economic recession in 2023
“I think we all believe that we're gonna have a pretty severe recession next year.”
Mangaluzzo predicts an upcoming recession following stock market decline
“There's a recession coming down the line, right? You know, you already have the stock markets going down. We're at our worst start in 52 years. Something's coming down the pike.”
Palihapitiya: Europe faces at least a recession from its energy crisis
“The entire continent of Europe is probably on the precipice of and the minimum of recession. But frankly, there's a lot of scenarios where it could be meaningfully worse.”
Samuels: Top private equity vintage returns occur during corrections and recessions
“Some of the best vintage year returns are in years like this, leading up to and during a market correction or a recession.”
Sacks: Excessive Fed tightening will cause a serious recession
“The reality is we do not want Powell tightening more than he should or more than is necessary to solve inflation because it will cause a serious recession.”
Gracias: US economy is currently in a recession
“Look, we think, I think we're in a recession. I mean, I'll, I don't know if someone's already said this, but we're in a recession. We're in a recession.”
Sacks: A major economic recession is now inevitable
“I think, like, recession now is just inevitable. You, to Jamal's point, you can't have 14% of global wealth wiped out practically overnight and not have that translate into a big recession.”
Palihapitiya: Europe faces a severe recession due to inflation and war
“Europe is going to be the canary in the coal mine on all of this because I think they feel this pretty severely. And I think there's a lot of exhaustion amongst European governments and leaders when you start to listen to this rhetoric. To kind of, you know, f…”
Sacks predicts the US economy will face a recession or near-recession
“We're definitely going into a slowdown. And whether it becomes a recession to be determined, I think there's a very good chance because We already were headed for a slowdown because of interest rate increases because of inflation. And now on top of it, we've g…”
Sacks: Yield curve inversion signals 98% chance of recession within two years
“Historically, it's meant when the yield curve inverts, there's been a better than two-thirds chance of recession at some point in the next year, and greater than 98% chance of recession at some point in the next two years.”
Gerstner: Oil crossing $120 per barrel has historically always preceded a recession
“We've never had oil over a 120 bucks and not gone into a recession.”
Chamath: A 50% energy price spike always triggers a recession
“It is always the case that when energy prices spike by 50%, we enter a recession.”
Papic: The Federal Reserve will not risk a recession to curb inflation
“I think the That is extremely sensitive to the political risks domestically in the U S and they will not look to curb inflation at the risk of recession. I don't think they will, but I'm in that camp.”
Papic: Global markets are entering a resilient commodity super cycle
“We are at a cusp of a commodity super cycle, and a recession could obviously curtail that. It would waylay it, but not for a significant period of time.”
Chamath predicts retail over-inventory could trigger a severe recession
“The next step beyond all of the supply chain issues could be and I think Saks has been talking about this a lot, like a pretty bad recession if these companies have all this inventory and they don't know how to get working capital.”
Sacks: Federal Reserve rate hikes could cause a recession
“The Fed now is raising rates or projecting raising rates very quickly, which is creating, it was created a huge market downturn. It's a very blunt instrument. It could cause a downturn or a recession.”
Palihapitiya predicts post-pandemic inflation could trigger an ultimate recession
“What it's really created has been this massive bout of inflation, which then could cause an ultimate recession because the Fed has to react.”
Levy predicts the current tech market cycle will end with a recession
“But I will tell you the thing that will ultimately cause this cycle to move into the next will be a recession.”
Levy asserts economic recessions typically last 22 to 23 months
“Typically recessions last about 22, 23 months, you know, during that recession time that things will contract and valuations will contract typically”
Halasnik: Industry-specific recessions can last significantly longer than broader macroeconomic downturns
“What I learned is that recessions in your industry can last a lot longer than the global or local recessions.”
Halasnik: Small businesses only have one chess piece to play during recessions
“You know, when you're a small business, okay, you have one chess piece. You don't have a lot of Options. You don't have a lot of moves. It's a real problem for a recession where like a small business, yeah, they can cut back on their costs really, really quick…”
Calacanis: Remote work could create unprecedented company efficiency and profitability
“My thesis on this in terms of getting out of the recession, I think remote work could lead to a level of efficiency and profitability in the companies that we have never seen before.”
Volset: Companies making one deep early cut outperformed in prior recessions
“I feel like certainly in prior recessions, you know, 2008, 2002 1001, I think the companies that did the best are the ones that, you know, did a deep cut early, but then didn't have to do anymore.”
Simple quantitative models have 8x the statistical power during recessions
“Simple quantitative models tend to have about eight times the level of statistical power during recessions than during times of economic growth.”
Nine in Ten Economists Missed the Four Recessions Prior to 2008
“Nine out of 10 economists had missed the last four recessions where we had the blue chip consensus estimates”
Glidden: Capital markets rarely dry up for over 18 months in recessions
“So if you look at, you know, the really bad recessions, they usually don't take, you know, the markets usually don't dry up. Take Markets didn't dry up for more than like a year and a half.”
Levinson: Multiple countries experienced 25 years without recession after WWII
“There were countries around the world that literally went 25 years from 1948 to 1973 without a single year of recession.”