So what are the odds we'll avoid a recession?

[wtg]

Looking better than they were a year ago...

https://qz.com/us-recession-bank-of-america-bofa-moynihan-rates-1851619281

[AdagioM]

The Great Recession of August 5, 2024

Preet Bharara’s podcast. I found this reassuring.

[CHAS]

"Surprise jump in retail sales casts aside recession fears
Retail sales rose 1 percent in July, reversing a June slowdown and marking the largest jump in more than two years." https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/08/15/retail-sales-consumer-spending-walmart/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3eb8082%2F66be2803b75d8304b4ea9f7f%2F597299149bbc0f1cdce763b8%2F19%2F52%2F66be2803b75d8304b4ea9f7f

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@CHAS said in So what are the odds we'll avoid a recession?:

"Surprise jump in retail sales casts aside recession fears
Retail sales rose 1 percent in July, reversing a June slowdown and marking the largest jump in more than two years." https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/08/15/retail-sales-consumer-spending-walmart/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3eb8082%2F66be2803b75d8304b4ea9f7f%2F597299149bbc0f1cdce763b8%2F19%2F52%2F66be2803b75d8304b4ea9f7f

The no-paywall version:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/surprise-jump-in-retail-sales-casts-aside-recession-fears/ar-AA1oRi93

Now I'll go read it....