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AP EXPLAINER: How do we know when a recession has begun?
The Associated Press ^ | July 26, 2022 | By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER (D-AP)

Posted on 07/26/2022 1:42:50 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Recession has arrived when you look at the steak cuts in Walmart and then decide, “I haven’t had SPAM in a while - Good ole SPAM.”


41 posted on 07/27/2022 8:07:23 AM PDT by Gaffer (Infidel, and proud of it!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Economic statistics become worthless during a period of high inflation—unless the numbers are deflated by the amount of inflation during the period.

So—if the economy “grows” by 5% but the inflation rate is 10%, the economy actually shrunk by 5%.

This is how .gov can play stupid games with definition of a recession.

The economy has not grown by 10% in the past twelve months.

We are in a recession now.

Easy Peasy.


42 posted on 07/27/2022 8:10:15 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A recession is when the party in power loses more jobs than the party not in power.


43 posted on 07/27/2022 8:10:16 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Robert A Cook PE

It is interesting that I have been a news hound, an Economics Major in college, and lived seven decades and it is only now, when Biden is faced with disaster that I have come across someone insisting the GDI index over rules the GDP in this matter. I wonder who it writing this? The Associated Press? Urinalist Central for the Progressive Leftist wrote this now? I wonder why?


44 posted on 07/27/2022 8:53:32 AM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: lightman

“A recovery is when Brandon loses his (job).”

LOL!!!


45 posted on 07/27/2022 10:49:24 AM PDT by MercyFlush (☭☭☭ Soviet Russia must be destroyed. ☭☭☭)
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