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Jamie Dimon warns that stagflation, an economic nightmare scenario, is still a risk
By
Anna Cooban, CNN
Published 6:49 AM EDT, Thu May 22, 2025
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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon.
LondonCNN —
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon isn’t ruling out stagflation in the United States, citing risks posed by large government budget deficits, including in America, and the disruption to global trade induced by US tariffs.
The term refers to a nightmare combination of economic stagnation or even a recession and rising inflation. It’s a very
tricky scenario for central banks to navigate: raising interest rates to rein in inflation risks stifling growth and pushing up unemployment, but cutting interest rates to juice the economy could stoke inflation.
“There’s a chance that (we’ll) have stagflation (in the US),” Dimon told Bloomberg Television in Shanghai, China, Thursday. The billionaire stressed that he was not making a prediction but that “we have to be prepared for something like that.”
Global fiscal deficits are inflationary. I think the remilitarization of the world is inflationary. The restructuring of trade is inflationary. And this is not all an American thing,” he added.
Jamie Dimon continues to warn of recession, despite pullback in China tariffs
Dimon’s comments come as President Donald Trump is trying to pass a “
big, beautiful bill” through Congress that would slash taxes for Americans — a move the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates would
add trillions of dollars to the federal deficit over the coming years.
On Monday, Dimon
told investors he believes that the odds of stagflation are likely twice that of what others have projected.
He also said that the full effects of Trump’s tariffs have yet to be felt and that markets are exhibiting an “extraordinary amount of complacency” in the face of those and other risks.
The US Federal Reserve has kept its benchmark
interest rate steady since January as Trump’s erratic trade policy has injected a huge amount of uncertainty into the world’s largest economy — in turn provoking
robust criticism from Trump who would like to see rates fall.
In his Thursday interview at JPMorgan’s China Summit, Dimon disagreed with the idea that the Fed was operating in a “sweet spot.”
“The (US) economy has been doing well… we’ve effectively been in a soft landing,” he said, referring to the central bank’s success in bringing inflation down without tipping the economy into recession. But he added: “That does not tell you what the future’s going to be.”