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'Soft landing' is unlikely for US economy, says JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon

Jamie Dimon said the Federal Reserve probably can't cool the red-hot economy without bringing on a recession.

JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon
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JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon

Hannah Levitt | Bloomberg
Jamie Dimon said the Federal Reserve probably can’t cool the red-hot economy without bringing on a recession.
“I don’t know if it could be a soft landing -- I don’t think so, but it might,” the JPMorgan Chase & Co. chief executive officer said at an industry conference in Washington Thursday, adding that the alternatives would be a mild or a severe recession. “In a tough recession, you could expect the market to go down another 20% to 30%.” 

Still, Dimon said he has “total faith and trust” in Fed Chair Jay Powell, and that stagflation is far worse than most