CHART OF THE DAY: Gas Prices → Inequality Wedge?

04/23/19 10:09AM EDT

Editor's Note: Below is a chart and brief excerpt from today's Early Look written by Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough. Click here to learn more.

CHART OF THE DAY: Gas Prices → Inequality Wedge? - zgas

If someone is politically inclined and wants to use our economic and market-timing tools to augment the rigor of their political opinions, all the power to them!

One example of this from a meeting yesterday (where the client clearly did not like Trump) was a Portfolio Manager concluding that: 

A) If we’re right and the US economy continues to slow into Quad 3 into a Presidential election year … and
B) If further #GrowthSlowing means the Fed has to get more dovish (from here) in kind to inflate asset prices…
C) Then cost of living (gas prices) is going to drive the “inequality” wedge in America deeper and deeper 

CHART OF THE DAY: Gas Prices → Inequality Wedge? - Chart of the Day

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