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Kathy Jones on Inflation: ‘The Worst Is Behind Us’

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Is the US Economy in a Recession?

The US economy is still expanding robustly, but some of the important drivers are weakening. I think that we are probably looking at something in 2024, some sort of recessionary environment which kind of maybe rolled from a manufacturing recession to more of a consumer recession. We don't have huge imbalances that we've had in some of the other recessions that we've hit. So it should be fairly mild, meaning a couple of quarters of really sluggish growth and output,. But you know, bearable compared to perhaps the financial crisis or some others that we've been through.

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