The Economy Might Not Be Crashing After All. Why a ‘No Landing’ Scenario Could Still Mean Trouble for the Stock Market.


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There’s a new entry to the hard-landing/soft-landing debate—no landing at all. Just don’t expect it to be good news for the stock market. 

Recent headlines have remained focused on whether the Federal Reserve will be able to engineer a smooth slowdown in the economy as it attempts to tame inflation or be forced to engineer a recession to bring the consumer price index’s growth rate back to its 2% target. Yet a third option is possible, one where it never touches the ground at all.