The Julia La Roche Show | David Woo, Who Nailed 2016 And 2020 Elections, Explains Why The Market Has The Trump Trades Wrong @TheJuliaLaRocheShow | Uploaded July 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
Macro trends blogger and economist David Woo @DavidWooUnbound, CEO of David Woo Unbound, a global forum devoted to the promotion of fact-based debates about markets, politics, and economics, joins Julia La Roche on episode 186 for a wide-ranging conversation on economics and politics, including the attempted assassination on former President Trump and why the market has the so-called Trump trades all wrong.
This episode was recorded on Friday, July 19.
Woo, the former head of Global Interest Rates, Foreign Exchange, Emerging Markets Fixed Income Strategy & Economics Research at Bank of America, is known for some of his bold and contrarian calls, including Trump winning the presidential race in 2016 (cnbc.com/2016/12/08/bofaml-analyst-got-ovation-from-co-workers-the-morning-after-election.html), and that the 2020 US presidential election would be much closer than expected and the results contested (afr.com/policy/economy/the-dangerous-groupthink-stalking-wall-street-20210909-p58q48).
Links:
Youtube: youtube.com/@DavidWooUnbound
Website: davidwoounbound.com
Twitter/X: twitter.com/Davidwoounbound
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction and welcome David Woo
01:25 Big picture macro view
03:00 Geopolitical update
04:10 Trump trades
06:53 Election is not over yet
08:01 Assassination attempt and the risk of another attempt
11:15 JD Vance
15:20 Finding a replacement to Biden
18:45 2025 will have nothing to do with 2017
22:44 Challenges in financing tax cuts, tariffs, and potential for a global trade war
25:50 Collecting taxes on big tech companies doing business outside the US would be bearish for stocks
28:00 Trump will face a massive budget deficit and why he's not that bullish for bitcoin
28:50 Trump 1.0 vs. Trump 2.0 economy
30:30 If Trump wins, he'll inherit a huge mess from Biden
35:41 Immigration
40:31 The ultimate Trump trades are defensive trades
44:30 Betting on a recession
50:37 Generative AI is a bubble that will trigger a recession
56:55 Parting thoughts
Macro trends blogger and economist David Woo @DavidWooUnbound, CEO of David Woo Unbound, a global forum devoted to the promotion of fact-based debates about markets, politics, and economics, joins Julia La Roche on episode 186 for a wide-ranging conversation on economics and politics, including the attempted assassination on former President Trump and why the market has the so-called Trump trades all wrong.
This episode was recorded on Friday, July 19.
Woo, the former head of Global Interest Rates, Foreign Exchange, Emerging Markets Fixed Income Strategy & Economics Research at Bank of America, is known for some of his bold and contrarian calls, including Trump winning the presidential race in 2016 (cnbc.com/2016/12/08/bofaml-analyst-got-ovation-from-co-workers-the-morning-after-election.html), and that the 2020 US presidential election would be much closer than expected and the results contested (afr.com/policy/economy/the-dangerous-groupthink-stalking-wall-street-20210909-p58q48).
Links:
Youtube: youtube.com/@DavidWooUnbound
Website: davidwoounbound.com
Twitter/X: twitter.com/Davidwoounbound
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction and welcome David Woo
01:25 Big picture macro view
03:00 Geopolitical update
04:10 Trump trades
06:53 Election is not over yet
08:01 Assassination attempt and the risk of another attempt
11:15 JD Vance
15:20 Finding a replacement to Biden
18:45 2025 will have nothing to do with 2017
22:44 Challenges in financing tax cuts, tariffs, and potential for a global trade war
25:50 Collecting taxes on big tech companies doing business outside the US would be bearish for stocks
28:00 Trump will face a massive budget deficit and why he's not that bullish for bitcoin
28:50 Trump 1.0 vs. Trump 2.0 economy
30:30 If Trump wins, he'll inherit a huge mess from Biden
35:41 Immigration
40:31 The ultimate Trump trades are defensive trades
44:30 Betting on a recession
50:37 Generative AI is a bubble that will trigger a recession
56:55 Parting thoughts
