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Recession Period. Start. End. Time Elapsed Total. The Great Depression–Late ’20’s and Early ’30’s. August 1929. March 1933. 3 years, 7 months. The Great Recession–aka The 2008 ...
In the Great Depression, GDP fell by 27% (the deepest after demobilization is the recession beginning in December 2007, during which GDP had fallen 5.1% by the second quarter of 2009) and the unemployment rate reached 24.9% (the highest since was the 10.8% rate reached during the 1981–1982 recession).
A recession is a period of two quarters of negative GDP growth. The countries listed are those that officially announced that they were in recession. It is worth noting that some developed countries such as South Korea and Australia did not enter recession (indeed Australia contracted for the last quarter of 2008 only to grow 1% for the first half of 2009).
Monetarist economists have argued that objectives of monetary policy, i.e., controlling the money supply to influence interest rates, are best achieved by targeting the growth rate of the money supply. They maintain that money may affect output in the short term but that in the long run, expansionary monetary policy leads to inflation only.
The NBER officially calls U.S. recessions, and data from Bank of America shows why this group won't be in a rush to declare the U.S. economy in recession.
Recession Period. Start. End. Total Time Elapsed. The Great Depression–Late ’20s and Early ’30s. August 1929. March 1933. 3 years, 7 months. The Great Recession–aka The 2008 Financial ...
The measure of the velocity of money is usually the ratio of the gross national product (GNP) to a country's money supply. If the velocity of money is increasing, then transactions are occurring between individuals more frequently. [3] The velocity of money changes over time and is influenced by a variety of factors. [4] Because of the nature ...
The GDP bottom, or trough, was reached in the second quarter of 2009 (marking the technical end of the recession that is defined by "a period of falling economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales"). [3]