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The Risk of Recession in the US Economy
I think people were fairly in consensus when it came to look, the US economy will manage to turn this around without going into recession. Since then, we've had a couple of inflation surprises. We've had jobs coming in stronger than expected on a number of occasions which has led to additional rate hikes from the Fed. So I mean, if I understand you correctly here, essentially, we're pushing the gas and keeping the handbrake on a little bit at the same time. Do you see that risk of going into a recessionary environment as increasingly high? "The risk of recession is clearly elevated," he says.
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