Billionaire Barry Sternlicht Warns of Hard Landing — Says ‘Economy Is Going to Implode’
Billionaire Barry Sternlicht, chairman and CEO of Starwood Capital Group, has warned that the U.S. economy is going to implode, emphasizing that interest rates have to fall. He further stressed that the economy “will have a hard landing.” Barry Sternlicht on Hard Landing, Economic Implosion The chairman and CEO of Starwood Capital Group, billionaire Barry Sternlicht, discussed the state of the U.S. economy in an interview with CNBC on Thursday. Following the Federal Reserve hiking interest rates by 25 basis points (bps) on Wednesday, Sternlicht reiterated that the Fed should have stopped raising interest rates, citing the banking crisis. Recently, several major banks failed, including Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank . “I think you have to lower rates. That’s how you recapitalize the banks. I think they’ve done enough,” Sternlicht opined, adding: The bond market is telling you what’s going to happen. The bond market is right. Interest rates have to fall. The economy is go