Goodbye, punch bowl. We’re going to overlook you. As the Federal Reserve prepares to empty liquidity from the monetary system to chill the inflation that its insurance policies partially stoked, Wall Avenue’s pandemic-era get together seems to be ending. Shares, bonds, crypto, you title it—nearly each asset class has hit a tough patch since 2022 dawned, and issues may worsen earlier than they start to get higher.
That’s the consensus of the 10 buyers on the Barron’s Roundtable, which met this 12 months on Jan. 10, on Zoom. The group appears to be like for…