Sahm rule creator doesn’t think that the Fed needs an emergency rate cut

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Sahm was the economist who introduced the so-called Sahm rule in 2019.
It states that the initial phase of a recession has started when the three-month moving average of the U.S. unemployment rate is at least half a percentage point higher than the 12-month low.

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