The FRED® Blog — How fast can the U.S. economy recover? V-shape vs. “swoosh”

How fast can the economy recover from a recession? A faster recovery would look like a V-shaped bounce. A slower recovery would look like a “swoosh.” The path depends on the economic sectors and time series data you look at. Here are some FRED Blog examples that study past episodes....

As with all historical comparison's relative to the present, YMMV. Conditions seldom match.

In the hope that, even in these extraordinary times, history can teach us a lesson, we look at the FRED graph above. It shows recoveries since GDP data have been available:

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How fast can the U.S. economy recover? V-shape vs. “swoosh”