>http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/199/business/It_s_official_Recession_is_over+.shtml
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>According to the experts the recession began March 2001 and ended November 2001, the shortest recession in history?
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"Recession" has a very specific meaning. Two consecutive quarters of negative growth. So the economy can be doing really poorly and not be in a recession.