recession
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“It is a very close call,” said David Rosenberg, head of market strategy firm Rosenberg Research, about whether Canada is in a recession.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
But, as Reid pointed out, three of these previous occasions took place in the aftermath of a recession, as the stock market was just bouncing back.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026
When then-Fed Chair Paul Volcker had to sharply raise rates in the 1980s to get inflation under control, it triggered a severe recession.
From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026
In our 2026 economic outlook, we warned that recession fears could persist alongside rising prices.
From Salon • Jun. 1, 2026
The most obvious explanation of the red shift was in terms of the Doppler effect: the galaxies were receding from us; the more distant the galaxy the greater its speed of recession.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Western Europe - Introductory
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