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U.S. ‘would be lucky’ to get a mild recession, Ken Rogoff warns

U.S. ‘would be lucky’ to get a mild recession, Ken Rogoff warns

Investors should pray for a mild recession from the Fed’s aggressive interest rate hikes, according to Harvard University professor of economics and author Ken Rogoff, because it could get much worse. “The dollar is very strong, and interest rates are rising very fast,” Rogoff said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “So I think the idea that it’s going to be a really mild recession, if that, would be lucky. I’d say it’s going to be a tough trade-off for the Fed once the numbers start… Source link

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Vladimir Putin will go down as a mass murderer: Harvard professor Kenneth Rogoff

Vladimir Putin will go down as a mass murderer: Harvard professor Kenneth Rogoff

Prominent economist and Harvard professor Kenneth Rogoff offered a biting take on how the world will remember Russian president Vladimir Putin. “Putin is a pariah. I have many Ukrainian friends and Russian friends who are utterly distraught. They look at being cut off from the world for a long time,” the former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund said on Yahoo Finance Live. “He is going to be looked at as a mass murder. People are going to be looking at again genocide charges…. Source link

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