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    Claudia Sahm: ‘We do not need a recession, but we may get one’

    The former Federal Reserve economist on talk of a recession, the battle to tame inflation and the difficulties of forecasting

    Financial Times
    ©The Financial Times Limited 2020 Nov 8, 2023 / 01:15 PM IST
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    The so-called Sahm Rule links the start of a recession to when the three-month moving average of the US unemployment rate rises at least half a percentage point above its low over the past 12 months.
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