recession

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Rather, recession hawks should keep an eye on compounding jolts that could simultaneously weaken the economy and the labor market, he argues.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Just a few months of inflated gas prices and snarled supply chains could halt growth altogether and tip the economy into a recession, they say.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

If you look at the post-dot-com era, tech stocks had already started to recover by the start of the 2001 recession.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

If the stress continues for months, however, economists will start to worry about a slowdown, or even a recession.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Orgoreyn and the Archipelago has been increasing during the last ten or twenty millennia, and presages the end of the Ice, or at least a recession of it and an interglacial period.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin