Getting the exit strategy right is crucial serious policy mistakes would significantly heighten the threat of a double dip recession.

What we're seeing with consumers right now is the ability for them to actually lead us forward out of this recession.

But if these forecasts are right, then a premature exit from deficit spending risks pushing the economy back into recession.

Of course, given the ongoing recession, it may not be so easy for central banks to achieve any inflation at all right now.

Unfortunately, the Great Recession of 2008 2009 is far from being a normal global recession.

The Shape of America s Recession

Imagining Recession

Recession Geopolitics

Recession Insurance

We know that we are probably in a recession right now, and may be for some time, so the expected losses currently are enormous.

Yes, an American recession might spill over to the rest of the world and cause a worldwide recession.

America s Political Recession

They are right up to a point immediately after a normal recession, economies do, indeed, often grow much faster than usual over the ensuing twelve months.

The Perfect Storm of a Global Recession

The recession was inevitable.

The Recession Dating Game

Now recession looks certain.

This would be the right policy if Germany was a freestanding country, but the eurozone s heavily indebted member countries badly need stronger demand from Germany to avoid recession.

Avoiding a New American Recession

When weak demand leads to recession, increase government spending and or cut taxes by just the right amount, determined by a Keynesian multiplier, and presto! the economy rebounds quickly.

The story goes back to the recession of 2001.

Is the world economy on the brink of recession?

As a result, recession seems certain.

Recession insurance is one such idea.

A US in recession would no longer serve as the world s importer of last resort, which might send the rest of the world into recession as well.

Some large EU countries are on the brink of recession.

The recent recession has presented challenges, but European leaders were right to avoid becoming intoxicated with short term Keynesian policies, especially where these are inimical to addressing Europe s long term challenges.

And what could ultimately arise from this worrying situation is a global recession. A world recession would have disastrous consequences for the economies of developing countries.

Avoiding double dip recession will be difficult.

The leading economies are entering a recession.

'Brilliant' Govt logic in a recession. FreeNetJo

The phrase Great Recession creates the impression that the economy is following the contours of a typical recession, only more severe something like a really bad cold.

Otherwise, the risk of another global recession will continue to rise.

Coupled with fears of a double dip recession in the United States, the European debt crisis is dragging the global economy into another cycle of financial panic and economic recession.

The dollar is already down 25 over the past five years, and if the US tips into recession a 50 50 chance right now the dollar is going to drop a lot more.

So the lesson from the recession is clear.

Some people even predict a double dip recession.

But these regions are nevertheless mired in recession.

How to Avoid a Double Dip Global Recession

Otherwise, their economies risk remaining stuck in recession.

Sometimes dating a recession is a judgment call.

The same scenario seems to be emerging in Greece, where the depth of the austerity induced recession, with output down by 25 over five years and unemployment at 27 , is paralyzing a reform minded center right government.

But deflation is associated with persistent recession (see Argentina again), and no country s society and political system can accept years of recession and fiscal austerity to achieve real depreciation.

CANBERRA The Great Recession of 2008 reached the farthest corners of the earth.

And Japan is already slipping back into recession because of the earthquake.