Discover how the Great Recession caused shifts in structural unemployment, transforming job markets and leaving lasting economic impacts beyond cyclical trends.

What is a recession? What are the key indicators of a recession? How do government and central banks respond to recessions? What are the causes of recessions? How can individuals and businesses ...

While the coming recession should not rival the Great Depression, it is expected to be deeper and more prolonged than the ...

U.S. consumers have taken a decidedly negative economic outlook, as a majority think the nation already is in recession and worry about high prices on essential goods and services, according to the ...

While Fed monetary policy has so far managed to tame post-pandemic inflation without precipitating a recession, there is growing concern among some economists that planned tariffs and mass ...

Nonfarm employment is currently 0.00% off its all-time high (data through April 2025). Industrial production is currently 0.26% off its all-time high from February 2025 (data through April 2025). Real ...

July 20 - The recession touched off by the coronavirus lasted only two months, ending with a "trough" reached in April 2020 just one month after the sharp drop in economic activity in March of that ...