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Basu Still Betting on Recession: CE's 2024 Q3 Construction Economic Update and Forecast Summary
"I have been so surprised that the economy performed this well," ABC Chief Economist Anirban Basu admitted in the recent Q3 Construction Economic Update and Forecast webinar—but he is not a full-fledged optimist yet.
By Grace Calengor
October 11, 2024
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by Grace Calengor
Grace Calengor is senior editor of Construction Executive. Prior to joining ABC in April 2023, she was managing editor of The Zebra Press in Alexandria, Virginia. She graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, in 2020 with two bachelor’s degrees in English and classics, and a minor in comparative literature.
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