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The Recession Revealed: It is on schedule and there will not be a soft landing!

The Recession Revealed: It is on schedule and there will not be a soft landing!

Who dares to mention the word recession anymore? Now, we have another robust jobs report just when the economy seemed to be cooling. Fortunately, there is a consistent explanation. The velocity of money. The velocity of money fell to almost 1.0 during the pandemic, the absolute floor. Velocity was never going to stay at one in a fractional banking system. This paper shows the strong relationship between velocity and real interest rates and the loan-to-deposit ratio.