“That’s A Scary Graph” Former Fed Economist Warns

Friday, July 22, 2016
By Paul Martin

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Jul 22, 2016

The problem, warns 33-year St.Louis Fed veteran Daniel Thornton, is that “the financial cycle is way ahead of the economic cycle.” As Bloomberg notes, that’s a worry given that the past two downturns were driven by asset-price deflation.

Americans are about as wealthy as they’ve ever been – and that’s a worry?

Yup, say veteran economists Daniel Thornton and Joe Carson. They’re concerned that the swelling of wealth could prove unsustainable because it’s far outstripped the growth of the economy since the recession’s end in 2009.

Thornton, who spent 33 years at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis before retiring in 2014, says in effect that we’ve seen this picture before. Household net worth ballooned in the late 1990’s and the early 2000’s; in the first instance pumped up by rising stock prices, in the second by expanding home values.

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