Groceries are more expensive these days. Major corporations are planning layoffs. Home sales are dropping. Thanks to these problems in the U.S economy, more and more people are worried about the ...

The definition of a recession can be pretty technical. The short version is if there’s a drop in gross domestic product (GDP) for two consecutive quarters. In the United States, the National Bureau of ...

Eventually, if I keep trying hard enough, I will find a way to make these two lines converge: In a comment to my last chart comparing job losses now to those in the early 1930s, plukasiak wrote: the ...