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A bear market could happen without a recession

The recent slump in the S&P 500 raised the spectre of a bear market. But even if one happened this year – rather than next year as we have been tacitly assuming in our forecasts – in response to the bursting of a bubble in Artificial Intelligence (AI), we still think it would occur without there being a US recession.

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