A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. The Fed’s actions beyond this week’s meeting will depend primarily on whether inflation is truly slowing. Investors will get another clue when the January jobs report is released on Friday. Economists predict that 185,000 jobs were added last month, a slowdown from the gain of 223,000 jobs in December and 263,000 in November.
“Combine a strong labor market with a still substantial reserve of excess savings, and you have all the components in place to keep the Fed up at night,” Vaillancourt said. So as long as hopes for an economic “soft landing” persist, the Fed will have to keep worrying that inflation is too high. That increases the chances the Fed could go too far with rate hikes and ultimately lead to a recession. Techs on a tear Wall Street is clearly buying into the “soft landing” argument.
Reports say if the Fed raises rates much higher and too quickly, it could cool demand so much that the economy goes into a recession. Higher interest rates make debt costlier and borrowing harder, for both consumers and businesses.
The US economy is in absolute shambles. What has happened to us in the last two years?! It's just devastating to the average American.
Right off a cliff into a recession. Thanks Joe
Lol...ya,no recession coming.🙄
Intentional destruction of society
a whole point better