Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Recession 12/07 to 06/09






It's official: The 2007-2009 recession, which wiped out 7.3 million jobs, cut 4.1% from economic output and cost Americans 21% of their net worth, marked the longest slump since the Great Depression...

The NBER acknowledged in its announcement that the end of the recession doesn't signify a healthy economy, only that the period of declining economic activity, measured by indicators such as economic output and incomes, has come to an end...

Meanwhile, real gross domestic product has made up only 2.9 percentage points of the 4.1% lost during the recession, while household net worth has recovered only 4 percentage points of the 21% lost...

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