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Is America in Recession?


Official numbers say the U.S. isn’t in recession—does real life feel different?



👤 WarOnPrivacy
America is in a 4 income economy - the number of typical incomes needed to reliably meet basic bills (rent,transpo,food,utils) in most markets.

I've lived thru 8 recessions, none had achieved this level of difficulty. None had so completely barred new entrants to society.


👤 fragmede
> GoFundMe CEO says the economy is so bad that more of his customers are crowdfunding just to pay for their groceries

October 13th, 2025

https://fortune.com/2025/10/13/gofundme-ceo-economy-inflatio...


👤 kasey_junk
If you are talking about as defined by NBER there is no “official numbers”. Recession by that definition is a) not a fixed set of numbers, the board determines it each time based on lots of different things and they aren’t necessarily the same metrics every time and b) explicitly a backwards looking descriptive designation. Most of the time you will be _through_ a recession before it’s declared.

👤 JojoFatsani
They’re running out of cards to stack up in the form of a house

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👤 hnthrowaway0315
Not sure about the US, but IT industry in Canada definitely is in a recession. When good graduates from Waterloo CS cannot find an entry level job, you know something is wrong.