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How Do We Know If We're in a Recession?
The "informal" definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth. Based on that one metric, the U.S. slipped into a recession in the summer of 2022. So why is there still so much debate on this topic?