Recession vs. Depression: Definitions While both terms are often linked with economic downturn, they are in fact different. Let's break down how they're defined: Recession.

Recession vs. depression, therefore, is a key question on everyone’s minds these days. Generally, a recession is a downturn in economic conditions, but a depression is a deeper and/or more ...

1. Inverted yield curve. Ned Davis Research "The yield curve is one recession indicator that reflects the Fed's control over the short-term cost of money. This one has an average eight-month lead time ...

If a recession does occur, it won’t be broadly recognized as such until the C. D. Howe Institute’s Business Cycle Council – the arbiter of business-cycle dates in Canada – declares it so.

But because the damage of COVID-19 to the world is extensive, many are using the term depression instead of recession. When the widespread economic decline lasts six months, the economy enters a ...

Mr. Bethlenfalvy stressed in a presentation that "even in our worst predictions" the current era will be nothing like the Great Depression of the 1930s.

During the last recession, the ratio of downgrades to upgrades peaked at 5:1; he expects in this cycle that it will reach 10:1 by the fourth quarter of 2009. In this environment, there will be very ...

Green shoots are bursting out. Or so we are told. But before concluding that the recession will soon be over, we must ask what history tells us. It is one of the guides we have to our present ...

But because the damage of COVID-19 to the world is extensive, many are using the term depression instead of recession. When the widespread economic decline lasts six months, the economy enters a ...