US stock market fall: Everyone calm down

Aug 5, 2024
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US stock market fall: Everyone calm down

The US economy is undoubtedly slowing down.

Robert Armstrong & Aiden Reiter

You know the story by now. Friday’s July jobs report was softer than expected. The market had a tantrum. This inspired both speculation that the inverted yield curve might have been right all along, and a lot of back-seat driving from would-be members of the FOMC.

It was all a bit overdone. Deep breath time:

* There is some reason to think the very low number of jobs added (114,000) was anomalous. In July there

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