[Note: this is now slightly out of date. An updated version is here.]
Following the GDP numbers published January 25, here is a further updated version of NIESR’s chart showing the path of recession and recovery in various previous downturns. The chart shows that this “depression” – defined, admittedly somewhat arbitrarily, as the time period during which output remains below its previous peak, shown as the X-axis above – is now longer than that experienced during the Great Depression, and is not likely to end any time soon. It also shows how what was initially a reasonably strong, albeit patchy, recovery stalled in the autumn of 2010; since then there has been very little growth .
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