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Toil and Trouble

Toil and Trouble

Update: 2025-10-14
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While the government shutdown has temporarily silenced the flow of official macroeconomic data, other warning lights are flashing red. High-yield spreads are widening, loan-loss provisions are climbing across the banking sector, and negative revisions to corporate profits continue to erode confidence. Roughly a third of industries are already in recession—a sign that the slowdown is more pervasive than headline figures suggest. Against this backdrop, the question is no longer whether the Federal Reserve will act, but whether it is already too late.

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Toil and Trouble

Toil and Trouble

Michael Roberts and Jeff Baldwin