On 12 Oct 2003 08:24:56 -0700, jim rozen wrote:
In article , Ed Huntress
says...

Once again, the growth rate at the beginning of Bush's term was 4.5% ...

Ah, so *that's* a 'recession.'

I'm just learning so much here.

Yeah, silly old me. I believed the definition that a recession is 3 or
more consecutive quarters where the "growth" figure has a *minus*
sign in front of it (in other words where the GDP is in actual decline).
Now Gunner is telling us that an expanding economy is a recession.
Must be that New Math stuff they're teaching the kids.

Gary