Headlines

  • The rosier near-term outlook that we unveiled in our Global Outlook, Summer 2023 continues to unfold, but we are not out of the woods yet
  • We argue that longer debt maturities complicate and lengthen the transmission from tighter monetary policy to weaker aggregate demand, but they do not stop it
  • Recession can still be avoided, but only if firms set prices and workers submit wage claims on the basis that inflation is going to be 2% — credibility is more or less everything
  • This is a more likely prospect in the US than in Europe

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Can longer debt maturities stave off recession altogether? Probably not