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The US Commerce Department on Thursday announced that the country’s gross domestic product had fallen for the second consecutive quarter, although President Joe Biden said the economic data overall “doesn’t sound like a recession”. In most countries, two successive quarters of GDP decline qualify as a recession – but not…

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Ask economists, analysts and the White House if the United States is in a recession, and you will get different answers. With the U.S. posting two straight quarters of negative GDP growth, one definition of a recession was hit this week. Did the world’s richest man correctly predict a recession?

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One month into his presidency, Joe Biden made clear his distaste for even naming the man he'd ousted from the Oval Office

Free community based online encyclopedia Wikipedia allows users to update sites with information and facts. Sometimes users take things too far and post funny items or inaccurate information. In the case of the word “recession,” multiple attempts to change the definition led to the page being locked.