Weird Economics

A New York Chapter of RMA Panel Analyzes the Unusual Economic Scene, and What It Means for Risk Managers

As the summer of 2022 was giving way to fall, economic analysts were seeing numbers that don’t usually go together. On one hand, there had been two straight negative quarters of GDP growth—a frequently cited, if oft-disputed, signal of a recession.

On the other hand, the labor market was continuing to boom, with unemployment…