Larry Summers

The British pound will fall below parity with both the US dollar and the euro (inferred window: within about a year, by September 2023).

Inaccurate ●●●●●
“My guess is that [the] pound will find its way below parity with both the dollar and euro”
Said on
27 September 2022 · Post on Twitter during the September 2022 UK mini-budget crisis, quoted by Fortune
Source
'I did not expect markets to get so bad so fast': Larry Summers predicts the pound will fall below parity with U.S. dollar, Euro · Fortune
Should come true
2023
How sure they sounded
my guess
Categories
MarketsEconomy
Importance
2 of 5 · Sterling parity would matter to UK markets and trade, a single currency move.

Outcome

Inaccurate

Sterling's low was about $1.035 on September 26, 2022, the day before his post. It then recovered above $1.20 within months and never fell below parity with the dollar. It also stayed well above parity with the euro (EUR/GBP never went above 1), so neither part happened.

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