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ClearBridge 2022 Market and Macro Outlook

December 1, 2021

ClearBridge Investments · ClearBridge Market and Macro Outlook for 2022

Chief Investment Officer Scott Glasser joins the Anatomy of a Recession team of Jeff Schulze and Josh Jamner to discuss the impacts of surging inflation on the economy, the outlook for growth and value stocks in a changing monetary regime, what stock market breadth is signaling as well as key risks to the current bull market and economic recovery. 

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