The US economic downturn: it’s only a matter of time

With the US economy facing headwinds from trade wars to slowing global growth, talk of a recession is picking up.

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Robert Shiller is concerned about recession

"Talk of a possible recession is picking up," say Scott Lanman and Katia Dmitrieva on Bloomberg. The US economy is facing headwinds, from trade wars to slowing global growth. The US central bank, the Federal Reserve, has already U-turned on raising interest rates, which has given stocks a boost. But "the bond market is a different story", says Patti Domm on CNBC.US Treasury yields remain surprisingly low, implying investors fear a slowdown more than rising inflation.

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Marina Gerner is an award-winning journalist and columnist who has written for the Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement, the Economist, The Guardian and Standpoint magazine in the UK; the New York Observer in the US; and die Bild and Frankfurter Rundschau in Germany.

Marina is also an adjunct professor at the NYU Stern School of Business at their London campus, and has a PhD from the London School of Economics.

Her first book, The Vagina Business, deals with the potential of “femtech” to transform women’s lives, and will be published by Icon Books in September 2024.

Marina is trilingual and lives in London.