"Do you think we are going to have a recession?" The questioner is a stranger, clad in an elegant fur coat, in a lift on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. It is the question all Americans are asking. When the question was put in Congress last week to Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, he replied "No". Unfortunately, he said the same in September 1990, when it is now clear that a recession had already started.
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