Ugly Forecast: We Are Headed Toward a Double Dip

[Its current forecast is] chilling: as bad as the economy has been, it’s about to get worse. … ‘If the United States isn’t already in a recession now it’s about to enter one,’ says Lakshman Achuthan, … chief operations officer … ‘I wouldn’t be surprised if [the unemployment rate] goes back up into double digits’ … Achuthan … says … gross domestic product rate is likely to go negative by the first quarter of 2012.”

New York Times story here.

 

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  1. Buster says:

    Small business is the engine of job creation and economic growth and small businesses are hurting.

  2. Devon Herrick says:

    I heard on the news that median income is now lower than before the recession.

  3. Joe Barnett says:

    The income loss since the recession has been greater than during the recession.

  4. Brian says:

    I am really curious as to how inflation and the strength of the American dollar are going to affect the serverity of this coming recession.