[ Lacy Hunt ] -- 11 May 2017 -- FED hiking rate into deteriorating economy

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Erik Townsend welcomes Dr. Lacy Hunt to MacroVoices. Erik and Lacy discuss: -- Are the secular lows in interest rates in? -- Minsky vs. Kindelberger -- Is the U.S. “Turning Japanese”? -- Impact of demographics -- Negative interest rates -- Fed hiking into deteriorating economy -- Dollar viability as reserve currency -- European sovereign debt LACY H. HUNT, Ph.D. Dr. Lacy H. Hunt, an internationally known economist, is Executive Vice President and Chief Economist of Hoisington Investment Management Company (HIMCO), a firm that manages $3.7 billion for pension funds, endowments, insurance companies and others. Lacy Hunt is the author of two books, and numerous articles in leading magazines, periodicals and scholarly journals. Included among the publishers of his articles are. Barron’s, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, the Journal of Finance, the Financial Analysts Journal and the Journal of Portfolio Management. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank both published his research. Previously, Lacy was Chief U.S. Economist for the HSBC Group, one of the world’s largest banks, Executive Vice President and Chief Economist at Fidelity Bank and Vice President for Monetary Economics at Chase Econometrics Associates, Inc. Lacy considers himself fortunate that he had the opportunity of working for two firms led by great bankers: David Rockefeller (Chase) and Sir William Purvis (HSBC). http://www.macrovoices.com/266-lacy-hunt-the-secular-bond-bull-market-is-not-over