interesting

[roofless]

While the stock market has rallied nicely since bottoming on March 9th, the economy continues to struggle. For some perspective on the current economic recession, today's chart illustrates the duration of all US recessions since 1900. As today's chart illustrates, the five longest recessions all began prior to 1930. The length of the current

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[handkim]

Where did you get the chart?

[amftx]

Look at the top of the chart, in the green block. :P

[roofless]

The image is also linked to the page for which it appears :p

[mlarosa]

It'd be interesting to see a variation of this chart that showed the trajectory of each of those recessions, so you could see where the bottom-out point was relative to the overall duration of each.

[roofless]

like a mouse-over chart. That would be slick.

[r3vsandip]

Interesting how the first decades of the 1900s were mostly recession-years... with just little few-year gaps in between of "non-recession time" - and so far according to the chart, the 2000s are the same. So "Yay!" for the recession ending, but somehow i think that after just a short while, it'll be be back.

[roofless]