A short note: Over the years, I’ve made several significant economic calls. For example, I predicted a recession in 2007, a recovery in 2009 (link is first in a series of posts), the top for housing prices in early 2006 and the bottom for housing prices in early 2012. I do not have a crystal ball, and I’ve missed some calls – but by watching the data closely, I’ve been pretty lucky overall.
Sometimes people ask me when I’ll make another call. I don’t know; I’m very data dependent!
But I was wondering if this counts? Back in December I wrote The Endless Parade of Recession Calls. I concluded:
Looking at the economic data, the odds of a recession in 2016 are very low (extremely unlikely in my view). Someday I’ll make another recession call, but I’m not even on recession watch now.
So far that looks correct. And I’m still not on recession watch.