It’s a sure way to attract media coverage: publish a report calling for recession in the next year. Analysts were doing it in 2016. And 2017. And 2018. And again now, as the US/China trade war escalates.
Obviously, they haven’t panned out yet. No surprise there, though, since most forecasts turn out to be wrong. The more interesting part is their underlying rationale…
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