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US enters recession - or does it?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2022
... growth are considered a recession, this isn't a technical definition. Instead, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) committee has the power to determine when the US economy officially enters a recession. The NBER defines a recession as ...

Coin toss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011
... (manufacturing and trade) is the highest on my records (dating back from January 1993). The only thing I don't have to complete the NBER recession indicator set is monthly GDP. But the quarter-on-quarter result showed real GDP growth had improved to ...

Willing America into a dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... a European one. I must admit that despite checking up on the indicators that the US National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Business Cycle Dating Committee tracks to date US recessions over the weekend and finding that there's no cause for alarm ...

Lost GPS

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... nigh - especially in the US of A. But on this matter, I checked the indicators the US National Bureaus of Economic Research (NBER) Business Cycle Dating Committee track to time America's recession. According to the NBER website, "It places particular ...

Just a typical pause

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2010
... following the 1990 and 2001 recessions and the 2007 one -- to which we're still waiting US National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Business Cycle Dating Committee to mark the end. US Real GDP Growth 1990 Recession.....................2001 Recession...........................2007 ...

Business cycle dating

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
... question after the New York Times carried a story about the 8 April meeting by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Business Cycle Dating Committee - the official arbiter of the peaks and troughs of the US economic cycle - that concluded that ...

Easter egg hunt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
... Nien! Nyet! The positive tone on Wall Street even gave Robert Hall - the head of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Business Cycle Dating Committee - the courage to announce that the recession is likely over. He might be correct. Nay, he ...

Back on the road again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2009
... cent annualised in the third quarter. Note that I didn't say out of recession. The National Bureau of Economic Statistics (NBER) - the people who tells us when US recessions begin and end - told us two months ago that we may have to wait more than a ...

Jumping at shadows no more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
... in June for its third consecutive increase. Yeah...so what? So what is that the US National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) uses the details of the index as gauges to determine the start and end of US recessions. And the details confirm the recession ...

No fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... Here's proof. The table below shows the recession periods in the America as dated by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the corresponding jobless rates before and after. It shows the unemployment rate continuing to rise months after ...
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