Has the US escaped recession?

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Economists across Wall Street are capitulating. JPM is one:

  • With 3Q23 growth looking solid, we no longer anticipate a recession in this calendar year.
  • Recession risks are elevated next year, but we look for modest, sub-par growth.
  • If inflation doesn’t continue to ease, more Fed hikes and rising odds of a downturn will come back.
  • But waning post-pandemic disruptions and waxing supply-side developments suggest upside risks as well.

BofA is another:

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.