“We have some antidotes to a recession, which are really important here, and that’s what’s kind of keeping this economy growing,” Kelly told Insider in a recent interview after the recent GDP report and before this week’s employment situation report.
Kelly added, “it’s very hard to tumble into a recession whenever we start to hire people.”
There are also a high number of job openings in the US still. After slumping in August, US job openings rose to 10.7 million in September, and there were about 1.9 job openings per unemployed person that month.