#MrMarket: Dented Can-of-food Aisle and the Recession. Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barron's.
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#MrMarket: Dented Can-of-food Aisle and the Recession. Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barron's.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/jpmorgan-gets-a-lift-from-interest-rates-but-warns-of-mild-recession-11673612918?mod=hp_lead_pos1
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| 0:41.0 | The word is recession. We've repeated that word for it feels like a full year all through |
| 0:46.5 | 22. And here we are in 23, not here yet. Even the United Kingdom, which is going through |
| 0:52.6 | a very bad patch of haphazard government and strikes across the landscape, but especially |
| 0:59.4 | with the National Health Society. It doesn't yet have the recession. It says that it's |
| 1:03.4 | on the way, not yet. There are outlying voices that say no recession. Outliers. Goldman |
| 1:09.8 | Sachs is one of them. No recession. US. No recession in Europe. There's even hesitation |
| 1:15.3 | by the world's solar systems, biggest bank, Morgan Stanley. Mild recession, like a weather |
| 1:21.8 | forecast. I welcome Jim McTake, longtime Washington editor of Barron's magazine, now a novelist, |
| 1:29.3 | because Jim has seen all this before. Many times, Jim and I have reflected on our youth. |
| 1:35.8 | You tend to associate the word recession with the first recession that bit into your prospects. |
| 1:42.1 | And Jim and I remember the recessions of 1973, 74, Richard Nixon in the White House in |
| 1:48.4 | a great deal of trouble because of shenanigans in the 72 election. That recession was joblessness, |
| 1:55.2 | was long lines at the unemployment office to pick up your check manually was what you'd |
| 2:00.2 | have to say. The inflation at the marketplace was obvious. I recall to Jim sometime in |
| 2:07.2 | that period of the 70s that a tin of tuna went from 69 cents to like a dollar 19. It's |
| 2:13.9 | a dim memory, but that is what inflation looks like at the food store. Jim, a very good |
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