Glad we cleared that up!

Officially, the recession is history after 18 months

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/2731116,CST-NWS-recession21.article

In somewhat totally related news, I was hanging at the hardware store on Sunday, where I have become an increasingly familiar face while stumbling through home improvement projects. A couple of the employees were discussing a recent offer mangment made them.  Either the employees all agree to extend their unpaid lunch from half-hour to a full hour(lossing .5 hours of pay a day in the process), or they let 2 people go.

Watching them them try to call the Great Recession over based on this 'jobless recovery' is no different than when G. W. Bush landed on the Abraham Lincoln in 2003 and declared Mission Accomplished.