It's been a wild week of incendiary headlines and inside baseball speculation, but the bigger story is more about what didn't happen. Earnings season is winding down, and while the numbers weren't always great, there were enough expectation beats that the markets did not completely go off the rails. Solid job numbers put some wind behind the sails of those hoping we weren't headed towards a recession, but the jury is still out on whether this has been a brief dip, a cooldown, or a recession is still on the way. Time will tell, but here's what you should be paying attention to right now.
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