This essay is available here as an Adobe Acrobat PDF. April 2007 To the dismay and amazement of optimistic market players, not to mention Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, early in March ...

The National Bureau of Economic Research says the United States has officially been in a recession since December 2007. A recession is sometimes defined as two consecutive quarters of negative ...

The U.S. economy slipped into recession in December 2007, the nation's business cycle arbiter declared on Monday, and the downturn could be the worst since World War Two.

A new report from the National Women’s Law Center revealed that a large number of Black women's homeownership rates have yet to rebound after a decade.

The 2007-2009 recession - already in the record books as the worst in the 66 years since the end of World War II - was even worse than previously thought. From the start of the recession at the ...

The 2007-2009 recession, already in the record books as the worst in the 66 years since the end of World War II, was even worse than previously thought.

This paper shows that household leverage as of 2006 is a powerful statistical predictor of the severity of the 2007–09 recession across U.S. counties. Those counties that experienced a large increase ...

The Tell Nearly everyone on Wall Street is abandoning their recession call, which is ‘dangerously reminiscent’ of 2007 Despite seemingly strong economic data, signs of weakness are growing ...

The state is in better shape to withstand a downturn than it was during either the 2007 Great Recession or the 2020 COVID recession, according to the joint study published Monday by the Illinois ...

David Wessel, economics editor for The Wall Street Journal, discusses the possibility of a recession. Though he concedes that is difficult to predict when a recession will hit, he has little doubt ...