banks, the nation has not tipped into recession — and certainly not a depression, either. A depression is an extended economic breakdown, and we have not seen signs of that kind of pain. (See recession vs. depression.) The definition of a recession The conventional benchmark has been that...
A soft-landing means that the boom ends with a gentle slide back to slower growth; a hard one that we have a recession.doi:10.1016/0304-3959(95)90066-7McRae, HamishReg AnesthRegional Anesthesia
but no one was really sure whether the Fed was completely finished or about to cut. And all of the indicators about consumer spending may be running out of money. There was a lot of uncertainty that we might have a recession. And so that I...
Inflation isn’t under control, and we’re heading for a recession. Except, wait: Thelatest jobs reportindicates that the labor market is healthier than it’s been in years. So maybe we’re heading for the fabled “soft landing” as the Federal Reserve tries to curb inflation. Except, wa...
a lot of uncertainty that we might have a recession. And so that I think it made a lot of companies nervous about coming into the market IPO, if the very next year they'd have a recession to deal with. As the soft landing is more and more likely, I think that's, again, even ...
Kmart is going under. We’ve seen it for a while now, and we’re honestly surprised that they’re still around. Last year, they shut down 53 stores. This year, they're planning on cutting another 45 locations. The closures aren’t going to stop, and many people are suspecting Kmart...
a lot of uncertainty that we might have a recession. And so that I think it made a lot of companies nervous about coming into the market IPO, if the very next year they'd have a recession to deal with. As the soft landing is more and more likely, I think that's, again, even ...
And then what we’ve seen over the last 10 years is every one of the trends I just mentioned has reversed. We are in a democratic recession. We are in an age of rising trade and tariff barriers, and protectionism. We are in an age where information systems that were once open are ...
“We’re going to look back on this 20 years from now and be talking about what a revolutionary period this was for the country,” Biden told unionized electricians last week. “We’re going to make a real gigantic difference.”
“The market came into 2023 expecting a recession. The market went into 2024 expecting six Fed cuts. The reality is that the U.S. economy is simply not slowing down, and the Fed pivot has provided a strong tailwind to growth since December,” he wrote Friday in a research note. “As...