Recession in 2025? Here’s What No One’s Telling You…
Ken McElroy Show
Ken McElroy
4.8 • 692 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Are we on the brink of a recession in 2025, or just facing a temporary slowdown? In this episode, Ken & Danille McElroy break down the key economic signals — from inflation and job losses to Fed policy — and show you what to watch and how to prepare.
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody is asking the same exact question right now. |
| 0:04.9 | Are we headed for a recession? |
| 0:07.0 | I know a lot of you guys are trying to figure this out. |
| 0:09.3 | There's tons and tons and tons and tons of videos on this, right? |
| 0:12.9 | But I think what's happening and what, you know, the moves that are being made right now, |
| 0:17.4 | especially with the tariffs and kind of what we're starting to see with the European |
| 0:23.8 | Central Bank. |
| 0:24.6 | So some of you might know that, you know, when our dollar gets weak, which it's low right now, |
| 0:33.3 | it affects other currencies. |
| 0:36.1 | It affects other central banks. And I think, you know, a lot of times |
| 0:39.8 | people are looking at this like centrally and locally. It's really a processional thing that hits |
| 0:45.2 | globally. And I think that's the bigger issue. We have a trust issue. We have a safe haven |
| 0:50.9 | issue around our dollar. And I think it's's it's going to start affecting so we can |
| 0:57.3 | look at today which we have to look at today of course and pal just got um pal just said he he he thinks |
| 1:04.3 | we're at maximum employment and we're actually fairly stable on prices that's's what he just said. So the question is, |
| 1:13.7 | this is why him and Trump are going at it in the news, right? Yeah, because the Fed basically |
| 1:19.0 | monitors two things. They monitor unemployment and they monitor inflation. And it's confusing |
| 1:24.5 | for Powell because he's in a tough spot because right now inflation is calming down, |
| 1:30.5 | but it could easily go back up. And unemployment while increasing is still within the bounds of |
| 1:37.1 | considered a healthy amount of unemployment. So right now it seems pretty easy to focus on |
| 1:41.8 | inflation. If unemployment continues to go up, you know, |
| 1:45.5 | the Fed then isn't kind of a tough bind because they have to then decide. And he basically said |
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