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Feb 2023
37m 50s

There's No Bull Case For Risk Assets

Alfonso Peccatiello & Brent Donnelly
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On today's episode of The Macro Trading Floor, Alfonso & Andreas walk through the biggest stories of the week and discuss everyone's most asked question right now, hard landing, soft landing or no landing? As the U.S housing market drops the most since 2008, will the economy be able to handle higher rates for a sustained period of time? Alfonso ... Show More
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