Apollo's Slok Warns Against Using Recession to Control Interest Rates

In a recent commentary, Torsten Slok, the chief economist at Apollo Global Management, expressed his skepticism about the prevailing strategy of raising interest rates to prevent inflation by risking a recession. Slok articulated his perspective during a discussion regarding the current economic climate, emphasizing that incentivizing a recession as a method to curb rising interest rates could lead to more detrimental consequences than anticipated.

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