Steve Hanke Predictions
Professor of Applied Economics
Track Steve Hanke's public market predictions and forecast accuracy. Each prediction is recorded from the date it was published to its estimated deadline, then graded correct or wrong based on the outcome.
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[0:19] I think the secular bull market is still in place and gold secular bull will probably peak out at $6,000 to $7,000 an ounce.
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[30:50] I think we'll see inflation moving higher simply because the money supply has been accelerating. So, so we got two two different things going on. And the causality in inflation runs from changes in the money supply to changes in inflation.
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[35:56] You you want to stay away from bonds. The the the bond vigilantes are already coming out. We we have, you know, the the the 10-year uh which is a key interest rate has moved from, you know, around 4.1% to 4.4. I think when it goes over 4.5, that's going to be a big that that'll be a big deal.
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[37:18] The 30-year is is almost up of it's just right under 5%. So when when that goes over 5% this is going to be big political problems. The the 30-year going over 5% which which I think it will do short shortly.
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[35:00] even though I think the stock market's in a bubble, usually bubbles only collapse when monetary policy tightens up. So, so what this means is that well, okay, we're in a bubble. Maybe the bubble isn't going to pop because the money the the monetary policy it's not tightening doesn't appear to be in the cards.
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[39:31] I think the Chinese Juan is is undervalued right now by a considerable amount. Uh so that's that's that's that's a plus. If if you're in in China, you're going to you're going to see not a depreciating but an appreciating currency.
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[31:37] we are entering a super cycle in commodities and commodity prices will be going up but that that that is not going to be the cause of the inflation going up. It's the money supply.
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[19:09] So So what it means is lower oil prices at at some point. Not not right now, by the way. Not right now. Right. Right now, you want to be long because there'll be more spikes as the straight remains shut.
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[24:02] you want to be long in the short and intermediate run because we we have had the the straight shut off but what's going on is pretty simple economics we've we've had a loss of about 14.5 million barrels a day that that don't that are not coming through, but the demand destruction due to the fact that the price has gone up is has not been that great. And the and the reason that the demand destruction isn't that great is that the price elasticity, the sensitivity of the demand, the quantity demanded of oil to prices is is is pretty sticky. It isn't very sensitive. Price goes up and demand goes down a little bit because of the price movement. You destroy a little demand but not very much. And as a result the you can see this by the way because the inventory drawd down is is about 11 to 12 million barrels a day. So in for in fact the demand destruction because of the price increase has only been about 2 and a half to three and a half million barrels a day. And and and to reach equilibrium they have to be about 14 12. It's it's only about two and a half to three and a half. So what's going to happen? We we're drawing down in price goes up that destroys a little demand and we live off declining inventories. We suck down inventory. Suck down in what happens when the inventories go up. The price jumps up. So we're going to see some price spikes coming. That's why you want to be long oil because because of the inventory draw down.
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[30:06] By the by the end of the year, it's going to be higher than it is right now. it it it might not hit hit the six to $7,000 range because yeah that that would that would require the kind of fantastic increase we had in the past which I don't know if we'll see again but yeah we're going bank we're going up
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[23:03] I I I think lithium will make a another big run.
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[23:06] And I another one I think is venadium.
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[14:25] So I expect another surge in prices for oil at the at the end of this month just just due to that because there'll be a gap of of basically no deliveries
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The prediction claimed oil prices would surge at the end of April due to delivery gaps; the period high reached $108.6 on April 29 (trading day 4), representing a 13.3% rise from the prediction date price of $95.85, confirming a significant surge occurred within the target window.
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[29:01] The money supply acceleration M2 will continue and they will not be able to contain and get the genie back in the bottle
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[32:11] by the way, a third of the world's fertilizer comes through the straight of Hormuz. Well, it hasn't been coming through. And fertilizer prices are through the over 50% increase in those. So, farmers aren't aren't buying fertilizer. We're going to have food problems. Food prices will go up.
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[34:20] the inflation expectation on that chart by the way is coming down. I think that's a false signal that'll that'll start going up though. There'll be a convergence of those two things, David.
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[40:42] I think the the US continues to deteriorate and I and I I think it will continue to it's been deteriorating for some time and I think it will continue to deteriorate.
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[36:24] you've got about 80 refineries that have been damaged. A third of them have been damaged but severely. and and it t it's going to take about two years just to repair those facilities.
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[10:29] They're not going to crush Iran. Point number one and Iran will in with a high probability continue to control the strait and and that means that functionally it'll it'll be closed.
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[21:33] I think this could be the death nail for sanctions. I think the sanctions regime will start coming off.
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[8:33] the stock market is in a bubble. It's in bubble territory and and it wasn't in bubble territory in 1978. The the PE ratio was eight. Now it's you know up in 29 28.
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[27:39] We've already said that the price of gasoline has gone up about 50 cents on average in the United States in the last few weeks and and it will go up. It'll continue to go up because as you just said, we had a West Texas Intermediate crude hit a hit a 52- week high today.
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[45:53] the American public is very negative on this and I think the Republicans led by Trump will take a real beating in the in the midterm elections so there's a political the political fallout will be big
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[25:54] I don't think the Fed is going to be able to put that genie back in the bottle. meaning what what's that 2% or less? I don't think it's going to 2% or less.
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[32:41] I think it's going up. I think I think it's going it's going it's going up. It's going to it's going to drift up.
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[35:29] 92% no change. Okay. So that's that's where I am. I'm I'm with the market. I'm with the market.
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The Fed held rates steady at 3.5%-3.75% at the March 18, 2026 FOMC meeting, with an 11-1 vote to keep rates unchanged — exactly as predicted. (https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20260318a.htm)
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[32:43] I don't think this loosening will allow the Fed to get back the genie of inflation back in the bottle and get down to the target of 2%. I think that's the real problem and that's going to be a big problem for Trump
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[39:39] with all this pressure Trump is putting on them, the Fed has pivoted towards loosening. And that means that the stock market bubble will probably stay with us.
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[38:43] that's good for hard commodities. So, keeps a secular bull market going in gold, silver, copper, platinum
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[9:55] So the the calls outnumber the puts by about a 2:1 margins and and that suggests that the consolidation around 4,000 it it's it's going up not not going down. It'll it'll hold at 4,000 and probably go up. The the options market is betting uh that it's going up from 4,000.
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The prediction claimed gold would 'hold at $4,000 and probably go up,' and the period high of $4,228.7 represents a 6.2% gain from the prediction date price of $3,979.9, confirming the bullish directional claim was correct.
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[18:31] I think the this secular bull market and gold that we've been in, David, will maybe end up at $6,000 an ounce, not 5,000.
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[37:50] Dollar is going to keep keep weakening and and get into my the the key the key dollar price is a dollar euro rate and and I think the fair value is 120 to 140 and and we're at about uh let's just look. look around 11718... So I think that the dollar will slip into the fair value range. It will it will go from 117 to weaken to 120 and and further into that range.
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The prediction claimed the Dollar would weaken and the EUR/USD rate would move from 117 to 120-140, but the DX-Y (Dollar Index) actually strengthened by 1% from 97.33 to 98.28 at the target date, with a period high of 100.4, meaning the dollar strengthened rather than weakened as predicted.
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[3:59] We are still in a downward trajectory for inflation and the reason for that is that inflation is always an everywhere a monetary phenomenon. So you have to look at what was going on a couple years ago with the money supply to get some idea of what's going to be happening with inflation today or tomorrow. And since the money supply two two and a half years ago was actually contracting, it would indicate that we'd stay on this downward trajectory.
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Inflation rose from ~2.4% in early 2025 to 3.0% by September 2025 before falling to 2.7% by year-end, meaning it did not continue on a consistent downward trajectory as predicted — it moved higher mid-year before partially reversing. (https://www.bls.gov/cpi/)
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[28:31] So in the next year we shouldn't be concerned about doubledigit inflation or high single not double digit inflation maybe high singledigit inflation coming back. You know people have painful memories of 2020 and 2021. So
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[47:07] Now the real interest rate actually has gone up to about 1.7% or something like that. And I I think I think it probably will go up to, you know, like two and a half or 3% something in that zone.
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The 10-year TIPS real yield (the standard benchmark for real interest rates) remained well below the predicted 2.5%–3% range throughout 2025. A November 2025 TIPS auction priced at 1.843%, and by end-of-year the rate was still around 1.8–1.9%, far short of the 2.5%–3% target. (https://tipswatch.com/2025/11/20/10-year-tips-reopening-auction-gets-real-yield-of-1-843-to-lukewarm-demand/)
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[17:20] I think the regime uncertainty will lead eventually to what? Looking ahead, it'll lead to a more serious slowdown and a recession in the United States. And with a recession, of course, you have topline revenues going down, margins going down, profits going down, and and you know, the stock market that the pees are going to come down.
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The prediction claimed the stock market would decline due to recession with falling revenues, margins, profits and P/E ratios, but the S&P 500 rose 14.7% from the prediction date ($5967.84) to the target date ($6845.50), with the period low only down 0.4% from the prediction price, failing to show the predicted decline.
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[0:15] What we're seeing is the onset of a slowdown that will eventually lead to a recession late in the year.
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The US economy did not enter a recession in late 2025. BEA data shows Q2 GDP grew 3.8%, Q3 grew 4.4%, and Q4 grew 1.4% — all positive, with no NBER recession declaration. (https://www.bea.gov/news/2026/gdp-advance-estimate-4th-quarter-and-year-2025)
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[16:44] I think it it might even hit the Fed's target at 2% or maybe even a little below this year
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US CPI inflation never hit 2% or below in 2025. The annual average was 2.6%, and the December 2025 year-over-year reading was 2.7%. The lowest monthly reading in 2025 didn't reach the 2% target.
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[29:43] Do you think that the worst is behind us for equities volatility? Oh, no. I I think things things are just warming up
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The prediction claimed volatility would 'get worse' and 'things are just warming up,' but the market experienced a brief dip of only 5.6% from the prediction date before rallying 26.6% to close the period significantly higher, indicating volatility did not materialize as a dominant feature and the bearish outlook was contradicted by strong market performance.