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Concerns are heightening that the U.S. economy is heading toward a recession as the stock markets slide amid the Trump administration’s implementation of tariffs.

President Donald Trump and his senior advisers appeared optimistic that an economic boom is on the horizon, even as economists warn that the likelihood of a recession is being amplified by the White House’s sweeping tariffs.
Trump has not taken the possibility of a recession off the table, telling Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures” on March 9 that he hated “to predict things like that.”

Wall Street has been worried. The benchmark S&P 500 stock index on Thursday fell into correction territory — defined as declining 10 percent from a recent peak — a week after the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index did so.