overshoot

Rob Wood, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said the latest borrowing figures showed public spending was "already overshooting Budget forecasts".

But it also raises the possibility of overshooting and sending the economy into a recession, which would ultimately hurt stock prices.

Specifically, the researchers looked at how often ozone levels would exceed air quality standards designed to protect public health, how far ozone levels would overshoot the standards, and how that may change by 2050.

The risk is that the economy might overshoot and end up in a painful recession that would cause layoffs for workers across the country and weaken corporate profits, dragging stock prices lower.

“When you release the breath, your heart rate then shoots up and your blood pressure can overshoot.”