A recession in the United States is not "inevitable," Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has said, just days after the US Federal Reserve hiked interest rates, raising fears of an economic contraction.
"I expect the economy to slow," she said on ABC's "This Week," but "I don't think a recession is at all inevitable."
The US economy has recovered strongly from the Covid-19 damage, but soaring inflation and supply-chain snarls exacerbated by the war in Ukraine have increased pessimism.
