Back in late 2008 people asked me: is this a recession or a depression? I said that I would call it a depression if the unemployment rate kissed 12%. I said that I would call it a depression if the unemployment rate stayed above 10% for a year.
Neither of those has come to pass. But the unemployment rate has kissed 10%, and has stayed at or above 9% for two years now.
So I am moving the goalposts. I am adopting a suggestion in comments of Full Employment Hawk . Henceforth, I will call the current unpleasantness not "The Great Recession," but rather "The Little Depression."
