Darius Dale Predictions

Founder at 42 Macro

Track Darius Dale'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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22 forecasts
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Darius Dale S&P 500 Stocks will experience a 1998-style correction of roughly 15-20% in Q3 or Q4 2026
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[1:46] saying that the risks of a 1998 style correction were rising uh as we headed into Q3, maybe Q4 of this year... And so that's essentially the kind of market dynamic we see as the most likely outcome in the context of our views on the monetary policy cycle.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-08-09 2026-12-31 pending
Darius Dale S&P 500 After the correction, stocks will rally sharply back to new highs by year-end 2026, similar to the 1998 pattern
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[15:08] 19%. So the market rallied 21% I think from December through the high of July. It gave it all back and then some by the end of August and then it rallied like 27% to close up like 20some percent uh by year end.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-08-09 2026-12-31 pending
Darius Dale Fed Funds Rate The Federal Reserve will tighten monetary policy (via rate hike and/or balance sheet reduction) at the September or October 2026 FOMC meetings
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[9:32] So, in our opinion, we do think the Federal Reserve is going to it's going to have to tighten monetary policy... when you think about where we are where we're headed for the next let's call it two to three months maybe even three to four months particularly when you get into the September October FOMC meetings is the fact that the this modest tailwind in the monetary policy cycle is likely to invert into a headwind.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-08-09 2026-10-31 pending
Darius Dale Fed Funds Rate The Federal Reserve will begin easing again in early 2027 after tightening in fall 2026
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[0:00] He calculates that it's more likely than not the Federal Reserve will tighten this fall in order to appease the bond market and set itself up to start easing in early 2027.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-08-09 2027-03-31 pending
Darius Dale GDP US economic growth will moderate and peak in 2026, with growth slowing over the next 12 months from current levels
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[24:14] It'll probably decrease uh for two reasons. One, um, the peak impulse from ABBA is in 2026... my assumption is that we're probably peak paradigm C here in 2026. We'll still be running a nomally hot economy in 20207. Uh but ultimately uh it probably won't be, you know, this is probably as good as it gets from a growth rate perspective.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-08-09 2027-07-30 pending
Darius Dale Fed Funds Rate The Fed will ultimately be forced to engage in money printing (structural dovish/easing policy) to counter the geopolitically-driven Treasury supply-demand imbalance
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[6:39] will this dynamic force Kevin Borch and his colleagues at the FOMC to print. Uh yes is the answer.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-08-09 2028-12-31 pending
Darius Dale US National Debt The US budget deficit will roughly double from approximately $1.8 trillion to $3.6-4 trillion in a recession scenario
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[22:15] Our budget deficit will widen. It'll probably double. You know, we'll go from about $1.8 8 trillion to, you know, somewhere around 3.6 to 4 trillion.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-08-09 2028-12-31 pending
Darius Dale 10-Year Treasury Yield The 10-year Treasury yield's fair value is 5.7%, implying yields will rise toward that level as term premium normalizes
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[29:07] we're still about 100 110 basis points below uh uh the long run mean of term premia prior to the GFC. So if you just added that back to the bond the 10-year Treasury yield, we'd be 5.7% right now. That's fair value for 10-year treasuries.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-08-09 2027-12-31 pending
Darius Dale S&P 500 There is a high risk of a 1998-style market correction (approximately -15%) in the next one to two quarters
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[0:00] Yeah, we still think the risk of a 1998 style correction markets is is still pretty high over the next one and two quarters.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-07-02 2026-12-31 pending
Darius Dale Fed Funds Rate The Federal Reserve will tighten monetary policy within the next one to two quarters
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[5:37] we think there is still material risk of the Fed uh tightening monetary policy over the medium-term. Let's call it in the first in the next one to two quarters.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-07-02 2026-12-31 pending
Darius Dale Fed Funds Rate The net result of the Fed's five task forces will be a dovish policy outcome, likely announced toward end of 2026
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[10:09] the net result of these five task forces are are are doubbish... if you don't mind I can kind of walk you through what we're thinking in terms of those task forces and why we think the Fed has to be you know more tight now more more hawkish now so that it can ultimately create the scope for that

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Thoughtful Money 2026-07-02 2026-12-31 pending
Darius Dale Treasury Yields The 10-year Treasury yield will reprice to well north of 5%, with fair value between 5.25% and 5.9%
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[23:24] you're talking about a a 10-year nominal Treasury yield that is a a fair value of about, you know, five and a quarter, somewhere about 5.9 somewhere between five and five and 3/4 to 5.9%... you're talking about a a bond market that could easily reprice to somewhere well north of 5%.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-07-02 2027-12-31 pending
Darius Dale Inflation Rate Headline CPI inflation, currently running at 8% on a 3-month annualized basis, will come back down in the near term
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[4:38] We're currently annualizing at 8% on headline CPI on a three-month annualized basis. That's going to come back down and and we're going to be off, you know, we're, you know, the markets have appropriately priced that that's going to come back down

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Thoughtful Money 2026-07-02 2026-10-15 pending
Darius Dale Fed Funds Rate The Federal Reserve will shift to easier monetary policy, creating a serious inflation problem in 2027
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[11:25] you know the Federal Reserve will have a serious inflation problem in 2027 if they go from today to tomorrow which is where we think they're going tomorrow which is more easy

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Thoughtful Money 2026-07-02 2027-12-31 pending
Darius Dale S&P 500 The stock market will finish 2026 at a much higher level than current prices, though a 10-15% drawdown is possible along the way
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[26:16] I think we finished the year at a much higher level from a stock market standpoint than we are today but that doesn't mean we can't have a let's call it 10 to 15% draw down between now and then as a function of central banks reaction function uh getting incrementally hawkish

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Thoughtful Money 2026-05-28 2026-12-31 pending
Darius Dale Recession A US recession will not occur until at least late 2027
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[29:29] Yeah. No, I think we could if folks are on your your channel using the R word. Um just tell them to punt it into the ocean at least until late next year. Just take the R word, punt it into the ocean

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Thoughtful Money 2026-05-28 2027-06-30 pending
Darius Dale GDP US GDP growth will reach at least 3%, roughly 50% above the Wall Street consensus of 2.1%
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[31:01] We've been saying since last April it's at least 3%. And so consensus is about 50% too low on growth relative to our paradigm C theme.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-05-28 2027-12-31 pending
Darius Dale Inflation Rate Sticky inflation will cause problems for financial markets over the next 3 to 6 months
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[21:00] yes yes and yes... we ultimately have to figure out whether or not the Kevin Walsh Federal Reserve is going to look through uh these sticky inflation pressures... The only thing that's negative is sticky inflation. And in our opinion, we think the sticky inflation thing may cause some problems uh once we get uh maybe you know um you know may cause some problems over the next let's call it 3 to six months.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-05-28 2026-12-31 pending
Darius Dale US Dollar The US Dollar will enter a secular bear market
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[0:00] And this is why we think we're early innings of a a secular dollar bare market.

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The David Lin Report 2025-05-01 2027-05-01 pending
Darius Dale S&P 500 The S&P 500 will sell off again over the next one to two quarters as part of a W-shaped market pattern
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[3:06] Our base case scenario is that we are in what we've been saying is a W-shaped market in a U-shaped economy. And what I mean by that is that if you think about the shape of a W, we're sort of on the inside left of the W. And we're expecting over the next one to two quarters that the markets will eventually have to uh sell off again and price in the inside right of the W

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The David Lin Report 2025-05-01 2025-11-01

The prediction specifically claimed the S&P 500 would 'sell off again' over the next one to two quarters, but the period low of $5578.64 on 2025-05-07 was only 0.45% below the prediction date price of $5604.14, failing to demonstrate any meaningful selloff before the market rallied 22.1% to reach $6840.2 by the target date.

Darius Dale US Economy The US economy will enter a technical recession with multiple quarters of negative growth
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[10:08] we see the economy heading into a technical recession. Uh a technical recession is a just a mere collection of of negative quarters where you're having negative growth.

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The David Lin Report 2025-05-01 2026-05-01

Graded early 2026-03-22. Technical recession requires multiple consecutive negative GDP quarters. Only Q1 2025 was negative (-0.6%). Q2 2025 (+3.8%), Q3 (+4.4%), Q4 (+0.7%) all positive. Q1 2026 tracking +2.3% (Atlanta Fed GDPNow). With one quarter left before May 2026 target, impossible to achieve two consecutive negative quarters.

Darius Dale Gold Gold will continue to be the best performing currency
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[36:37] to me, the the best currency in the world has been and is very likely to continue to be gold

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The David Lin Report 2025-05-01 2026-05-01

The prediction claimed gold would 'continue to be the best performing currency,' which is a qualitative claim about relative outperformance rather than a specific quantitative target. Gold achieved a 36.7% gain at the target date close and reached a period high of $5586.2 (74.1% gain from prediction price), demonstrating strong bullish performance consistent with the claim that it would continue to be the best performing currency.