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Musk predicts a US recession lasting 12 to 18 months

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Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, discusses macroeconomic trends with All-In Podcast hosts following negative Q1 2022 US GDP growth and rising interest rates.

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“But I think we probably are in a recession and that that recession will get, get worse. But you know, these things pass and then there will be boom times again. So that'll probably be some tough going for, I don't know, a year maybe, maybe, you know, 12 to 18 months is usually the amount of time that takes for a correction to happen.”

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