One thing that strikes me is that even for professional investors, economists, forecasters,

it's really, really, really hard to forecast and time a recession correctly.

So I think that's something all investors should really keep in mind,

is that even some of the best Wall Street strategists, economists, if you keep hearing about a recession,

sure maybe we'll fall into a recession in the first half of this year.

But maybe we won't, you know, no one got 2022, right?

So I think it's important to take all of these forecasts with a grain of salt,

because it's really hard to time the market and kind of position perfectly for these things.

Drill to have on the podcast today, leads writer for the Wall Street Journal,

CNBC correspondent, award-winning journalist, Goodjid Banerjee.

Welcome, Goodjid.

Thank you for having me, Andrew. I'm really excited.

I'm excited too, because I have wanted to pick someone's smart spring

about the markets in the economy of 2023, ever since the year got started,

which I guess isn't that long.

But I made a series of predictions at the beginning of the year,

and one of them was that I thought that there would be an economic recession in 2023.

And I based that on the fact that I had a bunch of conversations with various investors and CES,

and let me say that their mood could best be described as lousy.

Or something like those lines.

And I put that into my predictions in part, because I wanted to send a message to people,

it's like, look, this might not be the year of mammoth risk-taking.

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