SimpleImages / Getty Images A recession is a significant, persistent, and widespread contraction in economic activity. Since ...

Learn More » This recession-forecasting tool was last wrong in 1966 At any given moment, there's bound to be one or more ...

This chart also puts the “macro-risk-sandwich” of recession vs resurgence on display; this time showing the strength and tight capacity in labor markets [blue line] vs excess capacity and ...

A recession is a decline in economic activity lasting over a few months. A depression is a more severe recession, but there has only been one major economic depression in the US. Consequences of ...

A recession is two consecutive quarters of economic contraction, or gross domestic product declining year-over-year (see our explainer on recessions). And a depression is simply a recession with ...

The Great Recession from 2007-09 saw GDP fall 4.3%, the biggest drop since the Great Depression. Deregulation in the 2000s and excessive risk by banks were major causes of the financial crisis.

Economic indicators show a sharp and sudden deterioration, with significant drops in GDP and consumer spending, indicating increased odds of a recession ... This first chart shows U.S. Economic ...

Prior to the Great Depression, which began in 1929, the terms recession and depression could have been used interchangeably. Since then, economists have used the term recession to describe milder ...

It was everywhere you looked in the charts, defining the ... or overcoming this. Modern recession pop listeners are asking for some honesty about the depression and the helplessness while we ...

For example, in 2023 we witnessed the first sizable decline in U.S. M2 money supply since the Great Depression ... areas denote U.S. recession. As you'll note from the chart, one of the steepest ...