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Google Trends Is Now an Arbiter of Economic Downturns

Google Trends Is Now an Arbiter of Economic Downturns

Comment on this story Comment We didn’t need the reported two consecutive quarters of declining real gross domestic product —the unofficial determination of a recession—to tell us the US economy is already in, or at least close to, a business downturn. And we certainly don’t need to wait for many months for the official declaration by the National Bureau of Economic Research, the private research outfit that documents business cycles. Data release lags and revisions delay the NBER’s… Source link

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