A trader at the CME.
The US economy will slump into recession next year, hitting stocks and house prices, Harley Bassman says.
  • The US economy will capitulate and enter a recession next year, Harley Bassman says.
  • The Wall Street veteran expects stocks and house prices to fall once unemployment and mortgage defaults rise.
  • Bassman once ignored a warning from "The Big Short" star Steve Eisman about the mid-2000s bubble.

A recession will strike the US economy next year, pummeling stocks and house prices, a Wall Street veteran has warned.

Harley Bassman, the managing partner of Simplify Asset Management, issued the bleak forecast during a recent Rosenberg Research webcast.