Definitions for soft landing
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1. Soft landing

   A soft landing in the business cycle is the process of an economy shifting from growth to slow-growth to potentially flat, as it approaches but avoids a recession. It is usually caused by government attempts to slow down inflation. The criteria for distinguishing between a hard and soft landing are numerous and subjective. The term was adapted to economics from its origins in the early days of flight, when it historically was the method of the landing of hot air balloons, by gradually reducing their buoyancy. It later also applied to aviation, gliders and spacecraft, as in the Lunar lander. In the United States, modern recessions and hard and soft landings follow from Federal Reserve tightening cycles, in which the Federal funds rate is increased over several consecutive moves. In modern times, the most notable, and possibly the only true soft landing in the most recent 16 business cycles occurred in the soft landing of 1994, engineered by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan through fine tuning of interest rates and the money supply. In addition to being a certain type of business cycle, a soft landing may also refer to a market segment or industry sector that is expected to slow down, but to not crash, while the wider economy may not experience such a slow down at that time. For example, a contemporary newspaper headline read: "Soft landing forecast for house prices as rate hikes stem growth".

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of soft landing in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of soft landing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of soft landing in a Sentence

1. Kim Yang-jae:

   In the second half, memory chip prices will have a soft landing, so falls will slow, and the release of new iPhones later seems like a good sign for Samsung's display and memory chips.

2. Alexander Lin:

   The goal is to engineer a soft landing in the economy, that means pushing back on the economy just enough to get growth below where they think the trend is.

3. Ross Mayfield:

   It’s been pretty impressive how well the consumer has held up over the past 18 months, and not pulling the rug out from under the consumer is pretty much how you get to the soft landing, i think it’s a really, really narrow path, and the Fed’s tone [during its December meeting] doesn’t give me a lot of optimism that they can navigate that without hitting a recession. … If a soft landing is avoiding a recession altogether, then I think that’s a pretty tough task. If it’s a milder recession than recent history, I think that’s still in the cards.

4. Jan Hatzius:

   We don’t expect a recession, our baseline is a soft-landing.

5. Edward Al-Hussainy:

   We think the Fed's precautionary cuts continue and the market isn't anticipating that scenario and is priced for a soft landing next year.

References

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