"Bailout" was the 2008 Word of the Year
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When the National Bureau of Economic Research, or NBER, the group of economists the U.S. uses to date the peaks of economic expansions and the troughs of their subsequent recessions, looks to data turning points, there are typically four items that catch their attention most. In their own words, these are:

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