Episode 58. Is US in Recovery or Heading into a Recession?

Are the fears and worries in 2022 of a recession in 2023 coming to fruition?  In this Weekly Brief we review the challenges the Federal Reserve faced in 2020 and 2021 and why they needed to raise rates as rapidly as possible in 2022.  The concern among many analysts and commentators were the rate increases would stifle economic growth and spiral the economy into a recession.  Read in this Week our observations of recent economic reports that don’t seem to be indication such dire outcomes.