Mark Hulbert: The U.S. could be in a recession and we just don’t know it yet

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How do you know if an economy is headed into a recession? You don’t, until it’s already in one.

That’s the implication of a little-known indicator that keys off the difference between two separate measures of consumer sentiment. Fed Chair Jerome Powell didn’t make any mention of this indicator in his news conference on Wednesday, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he and other Fed officials are aware of it.

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