The year 2023 will be remembered for many significant economic, political and technological developments.

But one of the most noteworthy is something that did not happen: a recession in the United States. While parts of Europe flirted with recession and China stumbled after lifting its “zero-COVID” restrictions, the U.S. labor market and American consumers proved quite resilient.

That came as no surprise to me. In the summer of 2021, I predicted that President Joe Biden’s so-called American Rescue Plan — an unnecessary $1.9 trillion package of cash payments and subsidies that was three times the estimated output gap over the next two years — would cause a bout of high inflation. In response, the Federal Reserve would have to raise its target interest rate and the economy would duly slow.

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The most important developments of 2023

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29.12.2023

The year 2023 will be remembered for many significant economic, political and technological developments.

But one of the most noteworthy is something that did not happen: a recession in the United........

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