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      • The National Bureau of Economic Research’s Business Cycle Dating Committee determined that the COVID-19-induced recession lasted just two months — from March through April 2020 — making it the shortest recession on record.
      www.factcheck.org/2021/10/the-covid-19-recession-officially-ended-before-biden-took-office/
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  2. The national GDP for the first quarter of 2020 dropped 6.8% year-on-year, 10.0% quarter on quarter, and the GDP for Hubei Province dropped 39.2% in the same period. [293]

    • What's A Recession?
    • Surveying Past U.S. Recessions
    • The Own Goal Recession: May 1937–June 1938
    • The V-Day Recession: February 1945–October 1945
    • The Post-War Brakes Tap Recession: November 1948–October 1949
    • The M*A*S*H* Recession: July 1953–May 1954
    • The Investment Bust Recession: August 1957–April 1958
    • The 'Rolling Adjustment' Recession: April 1960–February 1961
    • The Guns and Butter Recession: December 1969–November 1970
    • The Oil Embargo Recession: November 1973–March 1975

    Recessions are sometimes defined as two consecutive quarters of decline in real Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which measures the combined value of all the goods and services produced in an economy. In the U.S., the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) defines a recession as "a significant decline in economic activity that is spread across th...

    Let's take a look at all official U.S. recessions since the Great Depression, focusing on common measurements of their severity as well as causes. 1. Duration: How long did the recession last, according to NBER? 2. GDP decline: How much did economic activity contract from its prior peak? 3. Peak unemployment rate: What was the maximum proportion of...

    Duration: 13 months
    GDP decline: 10%
    Peak unemployment rate: 20%
    Reasons and causes: Expansionary monetary and fiscal policies had secured a recovery from the Great Depression after 1933, albeit an uneven and incomplete one. In 1936-1937 policymakers changed cou...
    Duration: Eight months
    GDP decline: 10.9%
    Peak unemployment rate:3.8%
    Reasons and causes: The 1945 recession reflected massive cuts in U.S. government spending and employment toward the end and immediately after World War II. Federal spending fell 40% in 1946 and 38%...
    Duration: 11 months
    GDP decline:1.7%
    Peak unemployment rate: 7.9%
    Reasons and Causes: The first phase of the post-war boom was in some ways comparable to the economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Amid a backlog of consumer demand suppressed during the war...
    Duration: 10 months
    GDP decline:2.7%
    Peak unemployment rate: 5.9%
    Reasons and causes: The wind-down of the Korean War caused government spending to decline dramatically, lowering the federal budget deficitfrom 1.7% of GDP in fiscal 1953 to 0.3% a year later. Mean...
    Duration: Eight months
    GDP decline:3.7%
    Peak unemployment rate: 7.4%
    Reasons and causes: The end of the Korean War unleashed a global investment boom marked by a surge in exports of U.S. capital goods. The Fed responded by tightening monetary policy as the inflation...
    Duration: 10 months
    GDP decline: 1.6%
    Peak unemployment rate: 6.9%
    Reasons and causes: This relatively mild recession was named for the so-called "rolling adjustment" in U.S. industrial sectors tied to consumers' diminished demand for domestic autos amid growing c...
    Duration: 11 months
    GDP decline: 0.6%
    Peak unemployment rate:5.9%
    Reasons and causes: Military spending increased in the late 1960s amid growing U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and alongside high expenditures on domestic policy initiatives.As a result, the fe...
    Duration: 16 months
    GDP decline: 3%
    Peak unemployment rate: 8.6%
    Reasons and causes: This long, deep recession began following the start of the Arab Oil Embargo, which would quadruple crude prices. That tipped the balance for an economy struggling with the deval...
  3. Jul 20, 2021 · The U.S. recession touched off by the coronavirus lasted only two months, ending with a low point reached in April 2020 after thestart of a sharp drop in economic activity in March of that year,...

  4. Aug 24, 2021 · The shortest and deepest recession since the Great Depression has come to an end. COVID-19 led Canada into an unprecedented recession in the first quarter of 2020. Since May 2020, Canada has experienced broad economic growth, both in terms of real GDP and employment.

  5. On 1 May 2020, the C.D. Howe Institute’s Business Cycle Council announced that Canada entered a recession in the first quarter of 2020. The recession’s trough occurred in April of that year, but as of May 2020, the Canadian economy began recovering.

  6. Jul 21, 2021 · The National Bureau of Economic Research a recession had begun until June 2020, three months after its actual start in February. Technically, it declared the peak of an expansion lasting 128...