Earlier this week, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told a US broadcaster that “there are no meetings or anything happening like that in preparing for a recession because […] look, what we’re seeing right now is a strong labor market.”
.“It is possible. Look, it’s possible. I don’t anticipate it,” POTUS said, in what reflected his remarks made in April. At the time, he admitted that he was “concerned” over predictions by “some” that “there may be recession in 2023.”
“I think it's more likely than not that sometime in the next year or 18 months we will have a recession. I think that's a consequence of the excesses that the economy has been through, and historical experience suggests that the kind of inflation we have rarely returns to normal levels, to target levels of around 2 percent without some kind of recession,” he argued.