# Selected Press Coverage of BCDC (2001-11) **Double Dip watch, 2011:** "[Recession Gatekeepers: How a Economic Downturn is Determined](http://abcnews.go.com/Business/recession-gatekeepers-pour-data/story?id=14593553)," *ABC News*, Sept. 26, 2011. "[Odds of U.S. Recession Seen Rising by Academic Panel Majority](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-02/feldstein-recession-panel-members-see-rising-odds-of-a-renewed-u-s-slump.html)," *Bloomberg*, Aug 3, 2011. **Recovery watch, 2010:** "[The Recession is Over](http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-september-22-http:/www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-september-22-2010/the-recession-is-over)," *The Daily Show with Jon Stewart*, Sept.22, 2010. “[Recession Measurement](http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Measurem&showFullAbstract=1),” *C-span*, September 21, 2010. "**[Longest Recession Since 1930s Ended in June 2009, Group Says](http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-recession-20100920,0,4014811.story)**," *LA Times*, Sept.20, 2010. "[Who Decides When the Recession Ends?](http://economy.nationaljournal.com/2010/04/who-decides-when-the-recession.php#1577005)" *[National Journal](http://www.nationaljournal.com/njonline/) Expert Blogs*, April 19, 2010**.** "[NBER Committee Holds Off Declaring 2009 End of Recession Until It Is Sure,](http://content.ksg.harvard.edu/blog/jeff_frankels_weblog/2010/04/12/nber-committee-holds-off-declaring-recessions-2009-end-until-it-is-sure/)**"** links to April 12, 2010, reporting by ABC, *Business Week*, *New Yorker*, *WSJ*, *NY Times,* *Time*, *National Journal,Atlantic*, *LA Times*, *Miami Herald*... "[These Guys Call the End of the Recession](http://www.observer.com/2009/real-estate/these-guys-call-end-recession-0)," *The New York Observer*, Sept.23, 2009 **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*, Dec.2 "[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)," [EconBrowser](http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2008/12/recession_datin.html)[, Dec. 2.](http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2008/12/recession_datin.html) ["Stocks Pummeled as Recession Becomes Official," *PBS Newshour,* Dec. 1](http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2008/12/recession_datin.html) [" NBER Says Recession Began in Dec.2007," *CNBC*, Dec. 1.](http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2008/12/recession_datin.html) [**"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). **[Some media reports on NBER BCDC decisions regarding the dating of the 2001 recession:](http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2008/12/recession_datin.html)** ["](http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2008/12/recession_datin.html)[Out of Depth: Can Greg Mankiw Survive Politics?" *The New Republic,* April 12, 2004. "Experts Date It to Bush; Bush Says It Was Clinton's" *Washington Post*, March 5, 2004. *Business Week* article on CEA declaration that 2001 recession started earlier than NBER says, Feb. 23, 2004.](http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2008/12/recession_datin.html) [Harvard magazine](http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/jfrankel/NBERBCDC-Mankiw_etal2002.jpg) See also:- [ Business Cycle Dating Committee ](/nber-topics-2/category-1)