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recession

noun as in reversal of action; reduction of business activity

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Industrial production, the Federal Reserve’s preferred index of output, rose steadily from the 1940s all the way to the 2008 recession and remains close to its all-time high.

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Forecasters put the probability of recession in the next 12 months at 33%, unchanged from July.

As for a recession, it’s not about being right.

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Also, remember when we had two quarters of economic decline during the Biden administration, and it wasn’t declared a recession?

She went on to describe her life now, saying, “I am a podcaster. If that’s not a recession indicator, I don’t know what is.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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