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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: BUSH
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.030923.12610@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc
- References: <1992Jul22.181221.5192@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992Jul23.160636.26207@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <TOMF.92Jul23172512@ai.bunny.gte.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 03:09:23 GMT
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- In article <TOMF.92Jul23172512@ai.bunny.gte.com> tomf@ai.gte.com writes:
- >> >The recession is easing? Where? Have you heard the latest unemployment
- >> >figures?
- >>
- >> Wherever did you get the idea that what the unemployment rate was
- >> doing had anything to do with whether the economy was in a recession
- >> or not? While the two tend to be linked, the unemployment rate
- >> generally lags. What this means is that unemployment (in a 'normal'
- >> recession) will continue to get worse even after the upturn, and the
- >> amelioration of unemployment will trail along behind the improving
- >> economy.
- >
- >It can also mean that we're not coming out of the recession at all.
- >Imagine that.
-
- Nope, it can't mean any such thing. If there are two quarters with
- non-negative growth in the Gross Domestic Product, we are 'out' of the
- recession by definition. 'Recession' is a word that has a specific
- definition, and that definition has nothing in it about unemployment.
-
- >
- >Please move this discussion out of talk.bizarre and into misc.jobs.offered.
- >I'm sure it will cheer up all the people looking for work.
-
- If you don't want follow-ups in talk.bizarre, seems to me you
- shouldn't reply to it from there.
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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