Danielle DiMartino Booth
A CONVERSATION WITH...
with the fundamental structure of their higher education system, which does not attach a stigma to vocational education. So you’re able to continue climbing up the manufacturing ladder going forward, in addition to having STEM and educating engineers. We don’t need as many liberal-arts majors as we’ve got running around out there. Q: I’ve got one last serious question for you. I want to get back to the other debt bubble that I spend a lot of time on, which is the corporate debt bubble. And I’m sure you’re familiar with the name Martin Fridson, the “dean,” if you will, of high-yield debt onWall Street. DANIELLE DIMARTINO BOOTH: Oh, absolutely. Marty is a good friend. Yes. Q: And Marty is forecasting something on the order of $1.6 trillion in defaults by 2021 or 2022 or so, over the next three or four years, over the next credit-default cycle. Do you share that outlook? Do you think it’ll be that bad? DANIELLE DIMARTINO BOOTH: I do, but he comes at this from the prism of the godfather of junk. And I come at this from the prism of investors in the same way they look the other way with subprime mortgages having a AAA rating. I think investors have looked the other way with investment-grade debt. There’s too much of it out there. I think we are going to be living in a world populated with fallen angels.
A featured commentator on CNBC, Bloomberg, and Fox Business, Danielle DiMartino Booth makes bold market predictions based on meticulous research and years of experience in central banking. Her book Fed Up: An Insider’s Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America is a must-read
if you’re at all interested in changing the way the Federal Reserve is run. And she recently launched a newsletter, Money Strong , in partnership with Dennis Gartman, who we featured in our September issue of American Consequences.
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