Recession is the key difference between a soft landing and a hard landing in the U.S. economy. Through a soft landing, the Fed is able to successfully steer the economy through the contractionary ...

suggests the following description of a soft landing in his Journal of Economic Perspectives article, "Landings, Soft and Hard: The Federal Reserve, 1965–2022": "If the Federal Open Market ...

If the Fed hikes rates too aggressively, it risks pushing the economy into a bona fide recession – or what we might call a hard landing ... it does appear that a soft landing is the most ...

Some economists foresee a “soft landing” in 2025 ... could mean that economic growth comes in lower than expected. “A hard landing, or recession, is not our base case, but the risk of ...