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Re:Market Moves Suggest a Recession Is Unavoidable by repsilat on Thursday December 06, 2018 @03:02PM (#18621575)
> How can something "suggest" a recession is "unavoidable." If its a suggestion, then by definition it isn't unavoidable.

Nonsense.

Say I have a coin that I suspect has heads on both sides. Instead of just checking the coin, I flip it ten times in a row and check the result -- ten heads. "Coin flips suggest 'heads' unavoidable."

The article is saying there is some situation in which a recession is unavoidable, and signs point to us being in that situation.

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Re:Market Moves Suggest a Recession Is Unavoidable by aliston on Thursday December 06, 2018 @03:27PM (#18621850)
My point is that we're talking about a prediction regarding something for which there will always be a degree of uncertainty. The reason the author is "suggesting" a recession is unavoidable is because there's no such thing as an unavoidable recession, just as there is no such thing as an unavoidable heads coin flip.
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Re:Market Moves Suggest a Recession Is Unavoidable by loco5niner on Thursday December 06, 2018 @04:09PM (#18622260)
"60 percent of the time it works every time"
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