{"id":5260,"date":"2023-03-03T11:43:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T11:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/?p=5260"},"modified":"2023-03-03T11:59:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T11:59:35","slug":"economists-crystal-balls-are-growing-cloudier-but-they-still-expect-a-recession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/hy\/analysis\/market-overview\/economists-crystal-balls-are-growing-cloudier-but-they-still-expect-a-recession\/","title":{"rendered":"Economists\u2019 crystal balls are growing cloudier. But they still expect a recession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_7F948B85-498A-1CFA-D86C-849793AE5CF1@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">The US economy is confusing:&nbsp;Jobs are surging. Inflation has been cooling but still&nbsp;running relatively hot. Gas prices&nbsp;are on the rebound. Consumers&nbsp;keep spending, and their&nbsp;confidence is growing. But holiday saleswere tepid. Corporate layoffs&nbsp;are mounting. Company&nbsp;earnings aren\u2019t stellar. And mortgage rates&nbsp;are ticking higher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_E2C65436-1B35-4423-F79D-8577F209D5B6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">In a time when the economic data has delivered&nbsp;mixed messages&nbsp;or flat out&nbsp;busted expectations, economists\u2019 predictions for the year ahead are growing increasingly opaque.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_AD1B96DA-3C2C-CA8E-F42C-852D83CCCA92@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">The National Association for Business Economics\u2019 latest survey, released Monday, shows a \u201csignificant divergence\u201d among respondents about where they think the US economy is heading in 2023, the organization\u2019s president said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rate-now\"><span id=\"rate-mypost5260\"><\/span> <span id=\"rate-points\"> 0<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">jQuery('#rate-mypost5260').raty({\n\t\t\t\thalfShow : true,\n\t\t\t\thalf: true,readOnly: true,score: 0,\n\t\t\t\tpath: \"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/userpro-rating\/images\/\"\n\t\t\t\t});<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US economy is confusing:&nbsp;Jobs are surging. Inflation has been cooling but still&nbsp;running relatively hot. Gas prices&nbsp;are on the rebound. Consumers&nbsp;keep spending, and their&nbsp;confidence is growing. But holiday saleswere tepid. Corporate layoffs&nbsp;are mounting. Company&nbsp;earnings aren\u2019t stellar. And mortgage rates&nbsp;are ticking higher. In a time when the economic data has delivered&nbsp;mixed messages&nbsp;or flat out&nbsp;busted expectations, economists\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":6095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-market-overview"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/hy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/hy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/hy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/hy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/hy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/hy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/hy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/hy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/hy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/hy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}