Ep. 361: Neil Dutta on the US Economic Outlook, Fed Policy Stasis, and AI’s Role in Consumer Wealth

Neil Dutta is Head of Economic Research at Renaissance Macro Research (renMac). He leads their macroeconomic research efforts, with an emphasis on analysing the US economy, the Federal Reserve, global trends, and cross-market investment themes. He is considered a market economist, looking at the economic data and trying to highlight the risks to the consensus as he sees them. 

Prior to RenMac, Neil spent seven years at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch. There, he was a Senior Economist covering both the United States and Canada

1. Neil’s Wall Street “Origin Story”
2. The Four Pillars of Economic Analysis
3. The Real Income Squeeze
4. AI, RSUs, and State Tax Revenues
5. Pervasive Optimism and Reflexivity Risk
6. The Fed’s “Path of Least Resistance”
7. The Warsh Nomination and Forward Guidance
8. Productivity Boom or Demand Story?
9. AI’s Wealth Effect Beyond Accounting
10. The 2027 Fiscal Headwind
11. Substack vs. Institutional Research

You can follow Neil on LinkedIn or the RenMac website.

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