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I'm sure we used to have one. Something to do with 3 quarters of negative growth
by jokethrowaway 4y ago
I'm sure we used to have one.
Something to do with 3 quarters of negative growth
- nuc1e0n 4y ago2 quarters
- Izkata 4y agoTwo quarters of negative growth has only ever been a rule-of-thumb that mostly matched, the official determination has been with the National Bureau of Economic Research for a long long time ( https://www.nber.org/ https://www.nber.org/ ). You can see on this graph that the rule-of-thumb didn't hold right at the beginning of the graph in 1947 when no recession was declared, nor in 2008 when it started with a single quarter, or even 2001 when it started with a positive quarter: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A191RL1Q225SBEA https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A191RL1Q225SBEA