By Dhaval Joshi, chief strategist at BCA Research
Exactly one year ago today, the US Federal Reserve embarked on the most aggressive tightening cycle in modern history. It comes as no surprise then that the US has just passed two of the three staging posts to recession.
The first staging post is a housing recession. US residential fixed investment (home building) has slumped by a fifth. This is significant because post-1970 housing recessions have predicted economic recessions with a perfect four out of four success rate: 1974; 1980; 1990; and 2007 (Chart 1).
The second staging post is bank failures. Banks tend to fail just before recessions begin. Ahead of the recession that began in December 2007, no US bank failed in 2005 or 2006. The first three bank failures happened in February, September, and October of 2007,
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