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Financial Analyst & Economist

About Martha Kennedy

In early 2007, Martha Kennedy published a now-cited working paper identifying the simultaneous inversion of three yield curve segments, not just the 10s-3s spread, as a near-perfect precursor to recessions since 1969. She later testified before the Senate Banking Committee in 2008, arguing that credit default swap spreads on investment-grade corporates had crossed a structural threshold months before the Lehman collapse, a signal most models ignored because it wasn’t tied to equity volatility. Her methodology treats market stress not as noise but as layered language: liquidity premiums, repo rate dislocations, and options skew asymmetries are parsed as dialects within the same warning system. She refuses to isolate indicators, insisting downturns emerge from convergent fractures across funding markets, not single metrics. That perspective shaped the Fed’s 2019 stress-test redesign and informs her current work tracking collateral rehypothecation chains in shadow banking.

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  • “Why did you reject using VIX alone in your 2012 crisis-timing model?”

Frequently Asked Questions

Did Martha Kennedy predict the 2008 financial crisis?
She didn’t issue a blanket prediction, but her 2007 Brookings paper flagged systemic fragility in corporate bond CDS pricing and interbank term funding gaps, both of which deteriorated sharply six months before Lehman’s failure. Her testimony in May 2008 explicitly warned that the BIS’s ‘liquidity coverage ratio’ framework overlooked repo haircuts on AAA-rated ABS, a blind spot later confirmed by the GAO.
What’s Martha Kennedy’s stance on modern monetary theory (MMT)?
She critiques MMT for treating fiscal space as purely sovereign-currency dependent, ignoring how dollar-denominated EM debt servicing pressures transmit into U.S. Treasury futures positioning. Her 2021 NBER paper shows that when emerging-market FX reserves fall below 110% of short-term external debt, U.S. 2-year yields respond more strongly to Fed rhetoric than to domestic inflation data.
Has Martha Kennedy developed proprietary indicators?
Yes, the Collateral Stress Index (CSI), launched in 2015, tracks real-time rehypothecation rates across tri-party repo, GCF, and bilateral swaps. Unlike traditional liquidity measures, CSI weights collateral type by legal enforceability under Title 11, not just market value. It correctly signaled stress in March 2020 two days before the Fed’s emergency repo facility expansion.
How does Martha Kennedy differ from other recession forecasters like Nouriel Roubini or David Rosenberg?
While Roubini emphasizes macro imbalances and Rosenberg focuses on earnings cycles, Kennedy builds temporal hierarchies: she maps how stress propagates from wholesale funding markets to retail credit conditions over precise lags, e.g. 47 trading days from SOFR-OIS spread widening to subprime auto loan delinquency inflection. Her models are calibrated on microstructure data, not aggregates.
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