You! This is Radio Atlantic. I'm Isaac Daubert. This summer the U.S. celebrated its longest economic expansion in history.

June 2019 marked a full decade since the end of the Great Recession.

But, many of the people who pay close attention to these things are worried about hitting that record.

After all, what goes up must come down.

And recently we've seen warning signs of another recession around the corner.

Many of the economic numbers that President Trump

used to tout on Twitter aren't so great anymore. Manufacturing is slowing, the stock market

is spooked, and the Fed cut interest rates for the first time since the Great Recession.

So this week he's wavered between claiming the economy has never been better

and throwing out suggestions for new tax cuts, of course without any legislative negotiations to speak of.

So what exactly is happening?

Is a recession around the corner and what would happen if one arrived?

I spend my time chasing candidates around the country, seeing and hearing what they're seeing and hearing on the ground and I have to say

For all the stories we write all the other issues at play our politics often comes down to how people feel about getting through their own lives, paying

their bills, feeling like someone is watching out for them on the basics.

Despite the record expansion, you can feel the anxiety in people, knowing they're not all right now and

wondering if they ever will be again. So with me to talk about all this and to explain

the economics is Atlantic staff writer Annie Lowry. Annie, thanks for coming on the show.

Thanks for having me, Isaac.

So let's talk about where we are.

Is there a recession coming?

What is this that's going on in the economy right now?

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