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In a recession, all economic indicators do not all move together at the same time. We have leading economic indicators such as the stock market which is typically one of the first to go down and lagging indicators such as unemployment which is one last to go up. Unemployment is also one of the last to turn down in a recovery and the stock market is one of the first to turn up.
Yet in the past 3 recessions (not including the COVID one) job loss preceded the recession.
The Great Recession started Dec 2007, we had negative job growth by July of 2007
The recession before that started in March of 2001 and we we seeing months of negative job growth as early as June of 2000.
The recession before that started in July 1990, we saw negative job growth start that month and last a year.