PARK CITY, UT—"This is a big week for economic news and more than 50% of people think we are already in a recession." So said morning speaker Dianne Crocker, a principal analyst at LightBox. Once upon a time, she said, our transaction volume was breaking records every quarter.
"Forecasters were predicting that 2022 would be almost as good as 2021," she said. "What a difference the past six months have made. All of those predictions really became obsolete."
We are now really in unchartered waters here and the dynamics of deals are really changing, Crocker said. "Inflation is really the primary concern in our economy right now and things are really triggered by supply chain disruptions during the pandemic, exacerbated by the war in Ukraine."
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