one takeaway from this morning’s round of bank earnings the odds of a socalled soft landing a scenario where inflation cools but the us economy avoids significant contraction have improved that’s according to jean rosenbaum senior portfolio manager at gyl financial synergies “people should feel that the economy is on a pretty solid footing which is surprising given the pace of interest rate hikes” she said rosenbaum pointed to bank profits and netinterest margins that came in higher than analyst expectations as well as lighterthanexpected inflation data released earlier this week risks to the economy haven’t gone away altogether she said citing higher provisions for credit losses in the struggling commercial real estate sector still she said a soft landing “is definitely possible a few more reasons for optimism now”