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Originally Posted by MysticCat

There sticklers enough that they don't announce things until well after the fact. I believe that after the last recession, when the NBER accounced that the recession was "officially" over, the actual announcement was that the recesssion officially ended two years before the announcement was made.

These are people who will not be hasty.

Yes. FDR asked for a one-armed economist because he was sick of his economic advisors telling him "On the one hand... but on the other hand..."