The real economy is faltering and stagflation has embedded, paving way for the worst inflation and falling real growth since the 1970s.

And the “sizzling” jobs report isn’t feeling any love in the bond market where the US Treasury yield curve (10Y-2Y) deepened its inversion to -37.593 basis points, a drop of -1.331 BPS. Note that the 10Y-2Y curve falls below 0% just prior to every recession.

Brent Johnson, portfolio manager at Santiago Capital, returns for Part 2 of our interview with him to lay out the 4 assets he favors most given the strong US dollar. Cash, gold, productive land & blue-chip US equities are the assets he would "go to war with" -- though in the near term, he recommends waiting for the current bear market to bottom out before loading up on equities.

With inflation climbing to multi-decade highs and price pressures broadening out, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that there's now a "substantial risk" that high inflation becomes a more permanent fixture and that expectations around future rates of inflation could become unmoored and drive a wage-price spiral.