Sentences with phrase «insurance against a recession»

If I am wrong in either exaggerating the risks of recession or understating the efficacy of policy, the costs of taking out insurance against a recession that can not be met with monetary policy are relatively low.

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Why shouldn't they prefer a path with more demand, inflation at target sooner, more stimulus as recession insurance, and a small margin of extra inflation as a buffer against the next recession?

And in part because that recession hasn't hit yet, health care is still up in the air, and it makes sense to keep hedging against sequence risk and health insurance uncertainty.

WASHINGTON — In perhaps his most sober remarks about the economy this year, President Obama on Thursday described the weakening economy as «an emergency» and made the case for his jobs bill as «an insurance policy against a possible double - dip recession.»