Surely all these people losing decent paying jobs will have no impact on the economy right? Definitely not a recession right?

  • BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nzOP
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    2 months ago

    What’s the difference between a technical recession or an actual recession. Words are supposed to have meanings and recession is a well defined term with globally accepted measurement metrics.

    If we are technically in a recession it means we are in a recession.

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      2 months ago

      A recession is two consecutive periods of negative growth. So usually a “technical recession” means “we meet the criteria for a recession but we’re not experiencing the bad effects you’d expect (yet)”

      • BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nzOP
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        2 months ago

        The point is that the word recession has a meaning, the meaning is accepted worldwide, and we are in one. I would also dispute that we are not experiencing the bad effects. The polls seem to indicate the public is feeling quite a bit of pain.

        • TheChurn@kbin.social
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          2 months ago

          Well ‘we’ aren’t actually in a recession. Economic growth in the US has been positive the last several quarters.