How long are media outlets going to say the economy is "on the verge of a recession" .....

[marmar]

.... or "about to slip into a recession." They've been saying that sh*t for half a year. ...... Now if they said "on the verge of a decpression," maybe they'd be on to something.....

:think:

[Tesha]

1. Until it falls into depression. Then, it will be "in recession" for a while. (NT)

[liberal N proud]

3. Exactly

[Joanne98]

2. They need to be nationalized.

[FreakinDJ]

4. Right up until the last "Sucker" dumps money into the stock market

[flashl]

5. Long after the tent cities and shanty towns appear. nt

[rucky]

6. Until November 5th. n/t

[spanone]

7. until bu$hco tells them what to say next

[DemocratInSoCal]

8. They Didn't See This Coming

:sarcasm:

[TheFarseer]

9. I want to know what the big deal is?

If growth is at .1% or at -.1%, what's the difference? These are normal business cycles. You have to have bust to have boom and you can't have a boom without a bust. What we should be focussing on is the price of oil and food, the deficit and jobs leaving America. People that made bad loans or took out bad loans have to take their medicine or else this situation will never get better.

[edhopper]

until

The National Bureau of Economic Research claims there is one. This is who officially calls a recession. For the MSM to say we are in recession would not be good journalism. To be fair, they do quote many economist that say we've entered a recession, but this is not official. The NBER usually calls a recession post facto, after looking at all the data. So just because we don't have an official recession doesn't mean we are not in recession.
I haven't heard any optimistic talk from the MSM about the economy (outside of Fox and CNBC) for a while.

[edhopper]

10. *dupe*

[Warren Stupidity]

11. Until after the recession/depression/collapse is over.

Along the way they will trumpet several false start recoveries while deftly avoiding the obvious question 'recovery from what?'.

[doc03]

12. Until it meets the definition of an actual

recession. I hope the US doesn't go into a recession myself. I don't hope for the worse so it will help politically, which it seems may on this board do these days.