MarketWatch is reporting that it is official, the US economy entered into a recession in December 2007.
The U.S. economy entered a recession in December 2007, a committee of economists at the private National Bureau of Economic Research said Monday. The economy reached a peak in December and has been declining since, according to the business cycle dating committee of the NBER. The committee does not judge a recession as two consecutive quarterly declines in gross domestic product; rather, it looks at four key monthly economic indicators, including employment, industrial output and sales. Employment peaked in December.
Paper reactors and paper tigers
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(I wrote this piece a week or so ago, meant to do a bit more work but
haven’t got around to it. Hence slightly dated allusions) The culmination
of Donald T...
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