But that would have made a bad recession worse and put a million people out of work.
One of the reasons the country suffered such a bad recession lies in the fact that the spending of the rich fell sharply.
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Moreover, it cannot be said this is because the recession was so bad, as the experience in America has been the deeper the recession the stronger the recovery.
The economy is bad, but it's not even as bad as the last recession.
The political left loves to see the Bentonville Union Bashers suffer a bit, but does Wal-Mart's bad February herald another recession?
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All of this helps explain why the recession of 2008-9 felt less bad to many who lived through it than the recession of the early 1980s, even though there was a similar fall in national output in both cases.
The trust said it had fewer visitors in 2012 due to the Olympics, bad weather, and the recession.
Unfortunately, this is just another piece of data showing that the recent recession was very bad for American businesses.
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Europe's performance is lacklustre at best, and Germany could turn out to have a recession nearly as bad as America's.
One might expect unemployment to carry less stigma after a deep recession bad times, rather than personal shortcoming, being the more likely reason for a sacking.
The last recession was unusually bad for states' budgets.
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This makes the current recession at least as bad as any since the second world war.
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But if the recession was not as bad as expected, the recovery has been a great deal worse.
Perhaps, you could tell this year's graduates to rise above the bad luck of graduating during a recession.
Because an economic storm hit about nine months ago, ten months ago, that caused this recession that is as bad as anything we've seen since the Great Depression.
So no one needs to explain to the members of the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce that we've been through a punishing recession -- as bad as anything since 1930.
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Obama apologists cannot argue that this is because the recession he inherited was so bad.
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Jablow focused on how the recession had resulted in a bad rap for MBA students.
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Speaking of our auto industry, everyone recognizes that years of bad decision-making and a global recession have pushed our automakers to the brink.
As for our auto industry, everyone recognizes that years of bad decision-making and a global recession have pushed our automakers to the brink.
Mr. WESSEL: There are every signs it's going to be a very deep recession, at least as bad as the one of the early '80s, if not worse.
As the FICO data proves, the number of people with bad credit has grown significantly post-recession, leaving more people with no idea how to dig themselves out of their credit woes.
"If they get into another recession, that will be very bad for confidence and long-term growth, " Mr Fischer said.
It was a moment when we were going -- we were just getting a glimmer of the worst recession in our lifetimes, how bad it might be.
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The deeper the recession, the more all the bad economic ideas are being starved of capital so that good, growth oriented ideas can receive the formerly misused capital in abundance.
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Slamming the brakes on financial institutions--through precipitate tightening of regulation--is a bad idea when the world economy is tumbling into deep recession.
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