Tavi Costa: Consumers are getting completely squeezed

Tavi Costa - Twitter, Released on 9/13/22

Consumers are getting completely squeezed.

Mortgage rates just surged to their highest level since 2008.

Then add:

?-??,? Inflation outpacing wage growth?-??,? Saving rates near historical lows?-??,? Labor markets deteriorating?-??,? Consumer sentiment depressed pic.twitter.com/G5sqCjmRsA

- Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) September 13, 2022

Tavi Costa is a partner and portfolio manager at Crescat Capital and has been with the firm since 2013. He built Crescat's macro model that identifies the current stage of the US economic cycle through a combination of 16 factors. His research has been featured in financial publications such as Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, CCN, Financial Post, The Globe and Mail, Real Vision, Reuters. Tavi is a native of S??o Paulo, Brazil and is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. Before joining Crescat, he worked with the underwriting of financial products and in international business at Braservice, a large logistics company in Brazil. Tavi graduated cum laude from Lindenwood University in St. Louis with a B.A. degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in finance and a minor in Spanish. Tavi played NCAA Division 1 tennis for Liberty University.

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