11 days to Inauguration—Bloomberg: Obama polling data urges ‘recovery’ instead of ‘recession’ an (Richmond Times-Dispatch)9 Jan 2009
The jobless rate jumps to 7.2 percent and Obama polling data urges "recovery" instead of "recession." ...more

Recession Depression: Enough Already; www.NoRecessionForMe.us Launches Anti-Recession Movement (PRWeb)9 Jan 2009
How do you opt out of a recession that has so clearly begun to define our economy for the foreseeable future? The creative minds at Holton Sentivan + Gury (HSG), an advertising agency based in Philadelphia, have developed "No Recession for Me" ( www.norecessionforme.us ), a no-holds-barred, video-centric website that asks all Americans: will you surrender to the bad news and negativity, or ... ...more

Obama warns of lingering recession and double-digit unemployment (The World)9 Jan 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Barack Obama said today that the nation’s recession could “linger for years” unless Congress acts to pump unprecedented sums from Washington into the U.S. economy, making his highest-profile case yet on an issue certain to define his early presidency. ...more

Obama: Action now or recession could last years (WSYR 9 Syracuse)8 Jan 2009
President-elect Barack Obama said Thursday the recession could "linger for years" unless Congress pumps unprecedented sums from Washington into the economy, making his highest-profile case yet on an issue certain... ...more

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What's a Recession? Dating the Euro Area Business Cycle
We define a recession, for example, as a prolonged period of declining growth in the cyclical component of GDP (as measured by the movements of EuroCOIN) read all

Recession? Depression? What's the difference?
How can I tell the difference between a recession and a depression? The answer at http://economics.about.com/library/weekly/aa112002a.htm read all

BBC NEWS | Business | US officially enters recession
Other economists technically define a recession as a six month period of negative growth. Senate action needed "We will do everything we can to enhance a recovery," said President ... read all

CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Poll ...
For instance, do your poll respondents even know how to define a recession? By the way, in economics a recession is defined as a decline in GDP over two or more consecutive ... read all

Marketplace: Sloan Sessions: Define recession
Sloan Sessions: Define recession : Host Scott Jagow asked Newsweek Wall Street editor Allan Sloan to predict whether we're headed for recession in '07, but it turns out that all ... read all

Economic Data
Thus inflation or recession will define the creation of debt and the consequent pressure on interest rates will define how respective economies will function, and the resultant ... read all

Business Cycle Expansions and Contractions
The NBER does not define a recession in terms of two consecutive quarters of decline in real GDP. Rather, a recession is a significant decline in economic activity spread across ... read all

Insomniac Press: Books: How to Survive the Recession and the Recovery
How do the experts define a recession? What happens to average people in a recession? History of recessions in the twentieth century; Debt management read all

Econbrowser: Recession Indicators: Where Do They Stand?
Generally the NBER will define a recession when all parts seem to have alligned. I could argue the 2001 recession began in 2000,or 1989 was the beginning of recession, financially ... read all