Is This a Recession? Wrong Question.
It’s the numbers that matter, not the nomenclature.
by Derek Thompson
Jul 28, 2022
2 minutes
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The U.S. economy shrank for the second consecutive quarter, guaranteeing a robust news cycle of people shouting the word recession back and forth at each other. President Joe Biden has assured the public that the U.S. economy is not actually in a recession, while conservative media will surely use today’s report to state confidently that it is.
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