There is much more to risk management than making a myopic “recession call.” That’s a simplistic, “Old Wall” way of viewing markets and the economy.

As Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough explained recently, “you don’t need to make a recessionary call to make a risk management call.”

“When you start with the question, ‘Are we having a recession?’ your brain is starting Old Wall,” McCullough explains in the clip above from the August 5th edition of The Macro Show.

“We start with the prevailing conditions in growth and inflation, put them in the Quads [our proprietary Growth-Inflation-Policy model] and overlay them with the market signal.”

Watch the full clip above for more.

Forget 'Recession Call' - Make A Risk Management Call - hedgeye risk manager