Fed Outlook: U.S. Walks A Fine Line in Facing Recession
December 16, Washington(Reuters)- Vanguard’s Joe Davis thinks that the US will experience a recession in 2023, like many economists. And like most of his colleagues he thinks it wouldn’t be a serious one.
He has called it the “Zoom recession”, in effect a readjustment from the excesses of the pandemic with a handful of industries and techs in the crosshairs as people reset how they spend their time and money, but with a lot of industries skirting double. “It is getting back to normal,” he stated.
This week, The US federal reserve in new economic projections did not explicitly jump into the recession camp, and Fed Chair Jerome Powell said that he thinks the country can maintain “modest” growth and sees only a modest increase in unemployment, even as the Fed deliberately tries to slow things down in order to cool inflation.
Powell said to the growth rate penciled in by policymakers. “I don’t think it would qualify as a recession,”. Still, the Fed’s outlook is extremely weak, a rise in unemployment and a half percent growth next year would be equivalent to about 1.6 million more people out of work by this time next year – outcomes that look recessionary.
According to a published post by Newsbreak, only if the Fed is able to buck history that this may turn out differently this time.
The United States will experience a recession in 2023, and like many of his colleagues he does not think it will be a serious one. (Photo: Newsbreak)
United States Recessions Have Come In Different Flavors
The acute shock the pandemic caused pushed the rate of unemployment to nearly 15% and saw the economy contract from April through June 2020 at a depression-like annual rate of 30%. But GDP in the following quarter grew 35%, two years within, the unemployment rate had fully recovered, and the recession was judged to have lasted two months.
By contrast, The downturn caused by a collapsing housing market and a financial crisis much broader lasted a year and a half, from December 2007 to June 2009, a span during which GDP shrank during five of six quarters. Employment for payroll dropped continuously for 8 months after the recession ended and took six and a half year to regain its prior peak.
No one expects it to look like either of those if a recession does develop next year. Household and firms were less leveraged than they were back in 2007, with the modest debt service payments related to income, and a financial sector that – due to post regulations to the financial crisis – is better capitalized. those factors lower the financial crisis risk and the recession associated with it.
