The National Bureau of Economic Research tells us the Great Recession is "over." The only thing this announcement reveals is how out of touch those who view human society through the lens of quantitative measurements can be.
(AP, JEANNINE AVERSA): It's official: The longest recession the country has endured since World War II ended in June 2009, according to a group that d...
The consensus among economists is that the recession is over, and, technically, the herd is probably right. Corporate profitability has been boosted b...
Irrational exuberance, it's not. But even stagnation would be an improvement over recent history. The U.S. economy shrank at nearly a 6 percent annual...
Could our long national nightmare be over? The economic contraction, this Great Recession, began in December 2007, and there's no apparent end in sigh...
According to the New York Fed, "Research beginning in the late 1980s documents the empirical regularity that the slope of the yield curve is a reliabl...