Dawn Fitzpatrick, chief investment officer for Soros Fund Management, described a recession as “inevitable” in a recent interview, but noted that she was not overly concerned about the general health of the economy.
“The bottom line is a recession is inevitable—it’s a matter of when,” said Fitzpatrick in an interview with Bloomberg Business on Tuesday.
“There is no doubt that interest rates are going to go higher, and the Fed is going to move very, very quickly,” Fitzpatrick continued.
“That said, interest rates net of inflation are still negative, so monetary policy is still really easy, so again I do think rate increases will slow the economy and will impact inflation, but I think this economy has some shock absorbers built in that will allow that to happen … I don’t think we’ll avoid a recession, I just think it will be further out than people expect.”…