Talk:List of recessions in the United States

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Former FLC List of recessions in the United States is a former featured list candidate. Please view the link under Article milestones below to see why the nomination failed. Once the objections have been addressed you may resubmit the article for featured list status.
March 20, 2008 Featured list candidate Not promoted
This article is within the scope of the Economics WikiProject, an effort to create, expand, organize, and improve economics-related articles..
B rated as B-Class on the assessment scale
Low rated as low-importance on the importance scale

Most analysts predict continued growth

[Consumer Price Index up 0.6% in Oct]

[Retailers Post Mediocre Holiday Sales]

[Possibility of a Major Stock Market Crash Cannot Be Ignored]

Kstailey 19:38, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Contents

[edit] USA Recessions

Should this article be re-entitled List of USA Recessions? How about 1960-62? Was there a recession?

Renamed. Also, consensus appears to be that there was no recession during that period in the United States. Gary King (talk) 04:17, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 1953 Recession

Is the 1953 Recession for real? The paragraph, and the associated article The Recession of 1953, looks sensible, but was created by a user whose only other contribution to Wikipedia is a joke page. Rocksong 05:12, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

I've referenced the recession. Gary King (talk) 04:20, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] some other crisis in US?

  • event of 1807 caused by the Embargo Act of 1807 passed by Thomas Jefferson. Textile industry benefited enormously. Shipping industry suffered.
  • event of 1812 caused by the war of 1812.
    • Get me a solid reference and I'll add it in. Gary King (talk) 04:31, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

These events boost the industrialization of the US. Jackzhp 18:55, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

the recession of the 1840s in europe was bad enough to cause the revolutions of 1848

could this be included?

[edit] Only american recessions

There appear to be no recessions from other countries. Eg, the recession in England during the Thatcher era.

There are a number of American ones, and we do need others, but the list is mostly of global recessions. Most likely the Thatcher downturn you are thinking of was part of the Early 1980s recession. That article needs work to cover more than just the United State. - SimonP 11:16, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
Resolved. The article has now been moved to make it specific to the United States. PeterSymonds | talk 04:39, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Duration of recessions

As far as I know, NBER is the institution which establishes when recessions start and when they end. Duration of recessions on its page doesn't match with duration of recessions as listed here. -- Vision Thing -- 19:30, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Title "List of recessions in the United States" inappropriate

The title is simply appropriate.

NBER is the acknowledged authority that carefully tracks the cycles using economic data. This page uses judgement of wikipedia editors to define the recessions.

Recession is USA is a well defined term. This page may mislead the readers into thinking that this is an authoritative list. It is not.

It should be called a list of financial crises.--Chakreshsinghai (talk) 19:42, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

The problem with renaming it to 'Financial crises' is that this will greatly expand the scope of the article, which is not a good idea while it is still nominated as a WP:FL. It'd be better to keep the scope restricted and remove or add whatever items are necessary to make it complete rather than to expand the scope so greatly that every item will require much greater scrutiny. Gary King (talk) 19:47, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Late 1980s recession?

I see no mention of this. Timeshift (talk) 13:06, 11 May 2008 (UTC)