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Podcast: BiggerPockets Daily
Episode: Did We Avoid A Recession With Help From The Housing Market? by Lindsay Frankel
Description: Economists look to the residential housing market as a primary indicator of whether a recession is coming, and home transaction and construction data began showing positive signs that the housing downturn may have reached a bottom in February. Many believe we’ve dodged a severe recession, and some are even optimistic that the Fed will achieve the soft landing the central bank was hoping for—an outcome of stabilized inflation without a significant rise in unemployment. Consumer spending has begun to plateau, and The Fed has signaled that it will likely put future rate hikes on hold while keeping an...