This time may well be different
Throughout the summer, global financial markets demonstrated extreme volatility, which was to a large extent caused by...
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Throughout the summer, global financial markets demonstrated extreme volatility, which was to a large extent caused by the state of the US labour market. Since the beginning of the year, the US unemployment rate has been trending higher, increasing to 4.1%1. Historically, such an increase has coincided with a recession in the US.
The markets were thus...