Deutsche Bank is one of the first major banks to forecast a US recession. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. economists led by Jan Hatzius said in a report on Monday that an economic downturn was “far from inevitable,” in part because consumers and companies are “flush” with cash.
“Our call for a recession in the US next year is currently way out of consensus,” Folkerts-Landau and Hooper acknowledged in their report, adding, “We expect it will not be so for long.”
On top of the Fed rate increases, Deutsche forecasts the US central bank will reduce its US$8.9 trillion balance sheet by almost US$2 trillion by the end of next year, the equivalent of three or four additional twenty-five basis point hikes.
“The US economy is expected to take a major hit from the extra Fed tightening by late next year and early 2024,” Folkerts-Landau and Hooper wrote in a report entitled “Over the Brink.”
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Under the forecast, US unemployment rises sharply to 4.9% in 2024. Joblessness in March clocked in at 3.6%.
Folkerts-Landau is group chief economist. Former Fed official Hooper is global head of economic research.
