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Lawrence H. Summers on the future of inflation and the Fed's response

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Are We Going to Have a Recession?

David Frum: Nothing is certain in economics, and so no forecast should be made with greater than 75 or 80 % probability. But we do know this. When inflation's been above four% and unemployments were below four%, we've always had a recession within the last next two years. And i don't see how we can get inflation to substantially decelerate without wage inflation falling substantially," he says.

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