Topic: National Bureau Of Economic Research

Recession ended in June 2009: NBER

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The recession ended in June 2009, making it the longest downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s, the National Bureau of Economic Research said on Monday.The NBER, considered the arbiter of U.S. recessions, said its declaration did not ...

Recession Ended in June 2009

The National Bureau of Economic Research, the arbiter of the start and end dates of a recession, determined that the recession that began in December 2007 ended in June 2009. "In determining that a trough occurred in June 2009, the committee did ...

Economic panel says recession ended in June 2009

The longest recession the country has endured since World War II ended in June 2009, according to a group that dates the beginning and end of recessions. The National Bureau of Economic Research, a panel of academic economists based in Cambridge, Mass., ...

What Is the Economic Cycle?

Four different phases of activity spread out over a period of years -- the trough, the expansion or recovery, the peak, and the recession or contraction -- make up a business cycle. Merely flat points on the cycle, the peak and trough ...
Bloomberg has an article today with the provocative title "Bond Yields Showing No Economic Spoils for Republicans. That gap, at 2.11 percentage points for 2- and 10-year notes, signals a 15.5 percent chance of a recession in the next year, according to ...
Bloomberg has an article today with the provocative title "Bond Yields Showing No Economic Spoils for Republicans. That gap, at 2.11 percentage points for 2- and 10-year notes, signals a 15.5 percent chance of a recession in the next year, according to ...

Double Dip Didn't Happen

AT LEAST ONE THING IS CLEAR as August arrives: Stocks ended last week flat, after government data showed U.S. economic growth slowing to 2.4% last quarter from 3.7% earlier this year, and 5% at the end of 2009. Of course, the official ...
Those predicting double dip recession may be helping to cause one by raising consumer anxietyThey're a minority, but a vocal one, and they're hovering like storm clouds over a brittle recovery.They're the Double Dippers — the politicians, economists and analysts who foresee ...

The Essentials

If you've spent any time at all following financial markets, you've probably heard of sector rotation. It sprouted as a theory from NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) data on economic cycles, dating back to 1854. Here is a recent quote from ...
ABOUT THE ONLY THING THAT HAS become clear in the debate about whether we will have a double-dip recession is that there is nothing even remotely approaching a consensus on how to define it.. A majority of recessions in U.S. economic history ...