#  Recession Watch 2008 

 



“[Harvard Prof. Jeffrey Frankel About the Recession](http://www.marketobservation.com/blogs/index.php/2008/12/02/harvard_prof_jeffrey_frankel_about_the_r?blog=10)” *[CNBC](http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/jfrankel/NBER'sRecessionCallDec2008CNBC.mht),* Dec.2, 2008.   
"[Recession Began a Year Ago, Making It Longest Since Early '80s](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122815304785769411.html?mod=special_page_campaign2008_mostpop/lprintMode), Panel Says,"*Wall Street Journal,* Dec.2  
"[How The Recession Compares To Other Downturns](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97713903)," *All Things Considered*, NPR, Dec.2  
"[NBER Declares Official Recession](http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=525653)," *Harvard Crimson*, Dec. 2, 2008   
"[Cambridge group pegs recession on big job losses](http://www.bostonherald.com/business/general/view.bg?articleid=1136150&srvc=home&position=1): 'R’ word now official," *Boston Herald* , Dec2  
"[Even Bernanke can't say what's next](http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081202.IBUSECONOMY02/TPStory/Business)," *GlobeAndMail.com,* Dec. 2   
"[Recession Dating: Some People Are Going to Be Surprised](http://www.rgemonitor.com/financemarkets-monitor/254635/recession_dating_some_people_are_going_to_be_surprised)," [EconBrowse](http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2008/12/recession_datin.html)r

[" NBER Says Recession Began in Dec.2007," *CNBC*, Dec. 1.  
"Recession Started in December 2007: Panel" *Reuters/MSNBC*, Dec.1, 2008  
"Recession Dating: When in Doubt, Wait for a Crisis," Real Time Economics, *Wall Street Journal*  
"U.S. Recession Started in 2007, Longest Since 1980s," *Bloomberg.com*, Dec. 1   
"Recession shadows next president's economic aims," *Malaysia Star,* Oct. 30   
"U.S. in 'serious recession'" *Straits Times*, Nov. 11, 2008  
"Recession arbiter is sifting GDP, jobs data,"  MarketWatch*, WSJ.com, Nov. 6  
"Specialists: Inaction on Bailout Will Bring Pain" *The Boston Globe*, Oct. 1  
"Econ Professors Lament Financial Crisis," *The Harvard Crimson,* Sept. 18  
"Recession Uncertain, Says NBER Economist," *MoneyNews*, Aug. 28, 2008  
"Jobs data, GDP, Stoke doubt over recession - The official recession call," *MSNBC*, Aug.1  
"Why so long to call a recession?" *Business Week,* May 19, 2008  
"If it feels like a recession..." *All Things Considered*, NPR, Feb.15, 2008   
"NBER BCDC members weigh in" *Wall Street Journal*, Jan.24, 2008](http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2008/12/recession_datin.html)