Topic: Larry Summers

December 13, 2009

President Obama's top economics advisers don't seem to have decided on how they defince a "recession."

Economics advisers: ‘Recession is over,’ but ‘of course’ it isn’t

So which definition is the administration using?

July 17, 2009

Using Google search stats as an economic indicator

President Obama’s chief economic adviser, Larry Summers, told the Peterson Institute for International Economics today that the U.S. economy is on its way out of the recession because, among other things, Google searches for “economic depression” have dropped down to baseline levels.

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