#  Business Cycle Dating Committee 

 



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[**Dates of recessions**](http://www.nber.org/cycles/cyclesmain.html)**, starts & ends.**   
[**Announcements**](http://www.nber.org/cycles/main.html)**.**   
[**BCDC members**](https://www.nber.org/research/business-cycle-dating/business-cycle-dating-committee-members)**.**  
[**FAQs**](https://www.nber.org/business-cycle-dating-procedure-frequently-asked-questions)

  
"[Who needs a Committee? Isn’t a recession simply two quarters of negative growth](/file_url/1143)?" Macroeconomic Policly Seminar, Harvard Economics Dept., Feb..14, 2023.

["The July 28 announcement of Q2 GDP will not mean the US is in recession](http://www.jeffrey-frankel.com/2022/07/21/the-july-28-announcement-of-q2-gdp-will-not-mean-recession/)," blog, June 21, 2022. From "Is the US in Recession?"[ *Project Syndicat*](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/us-recession-bea-release-second-quarter-gdp-growth-by-jeffrey-frankel-2022-07?utm_source=project-syndicate.org&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=authnote&barrier=accesspaylog)e.  
  
"[No, the US is Not in Recession](http://www.jeffrey-frankel.com/2022/06/09/no-the-us-is-not-in-recession/)," blog, June 9, 2022. [From Barron's magazine](https://www.barrons.com/articles/is-us-in-recession-nber-official-definition-51654630634), June 8..  
  
"[What Determines When a Recession is a Recession?](http://www.jeffrey-frankel.com/2020/06/18/what-determines-when-a-recession-is-a-recession/)" blogpost, June 18, 2020.  
"[The US is Officially in Recession, Thanks to the Coronavirus Crisis](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/16/us-recession-coronavirus-crisis)," *The* [*Guardian*](https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jeffrey-frankel), June 16, 2020.

“[Why do we need a Business Cycle Dating Committee?](/file_url/822)". [Seminar on Business Cycle Dating, CIDE](https://www.inegi.org.mx/eventos/2019/cide/), Oct. 30-31, 2019.

When was the end of the recession? "[Answer](/file_url/720)," *Jeopardy* show, April 19, 2019.

[Photo of BCDC meeting, calling end of the Great Recession, April 2010](/file_url/881).  
  
**Selected Press Coverage of BCDC,** [**2001-2011**](/selected-press-coverage-bcdc#)**.**