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Podcast: Notes on the Week Ahead
Episode: Winter Driving: Can the Economy Keep Growing into 2025?
Description: One of the least pleasant aspects of winter is driving on icy roads as the snow piles up in front of you. Long experience has taught us that winter driving is possible. But it is slower, with a narrower margin for error, and a greater chance of sliding off the road.
Similarly, if we extend the economic forecast horizon to encompass not just 2024 but also 2025, it’s still possible to trace out a “soft-landing” scenario, whereby the economy keeps growing even as inflation returns to the Fed’s 2% target. However, it would be, at best, slow-going and, like dri...