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There is a pretty concrete recession definition (two consecutive quarters of GDP contraction). Maybe we did? https://www.dallasfed.org/research/economics/2022
by loeg 1y ago
There is a pretty concrete recession definition (two consecutive quarters of GDP contraction). Maybe we did?
https://www.dallasfed.org/research/economics/2022/0802 https://www.dallasfed.org/research/economics/2022/0802
If we did, it was seemingly mild in hindsight.
- Fade_Dance 1y ago>If we did, it was seemingly mild in hindsight. That's pretty much the consensus. Also, remember that markets are most responsive to rates of change, which is an important angle to consider beyond the hard recession definition. It may have technically been a mild recession, but the rates of change in many areas were extreme and had some fairly catastrophic consequences (for example, fixed income/rate volatility getting so high that systemic risk skyrocketed and Fed intervention was required).