[eggman]

You have to understand the newspeak term Growth Recession. The government is keeping the economy from being technically in a recession through accounting gimmicks and throwing around some more stimulus that they still have stashed away. So we are not in a recession but we are in a recession. And the economy is growing but it is not really increasing in terms of dollars or jobs or anything measurable.

Just use your imagination. That's what the media is doing trying to cover up the mess we're in.

[dangus]

Oh, you’re absolutely right about the “stimulus.” click on “dangus,” and you’ll find vanities I wrote a year ago plus: “Don’t be fooled by economic growth.” Government spending itself is scored as economic activity; it doesn’t stimulate growth, it *is* growth, in the imperfect way that growth is measured by GDP. Insanely, a reduction of government spending is scored towards recession.