Are we in a recession (U.S.)?

Only one of the following is true:

1) We are not in a recession (yet)

2) We are in one and the government is lying to us by not reporting negative growth in the past 6 months.

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It's MOAR LIEK this:

3) We've been in a recession since 2000, but fucking Greenspan did everything he could to delay the onset of liquidation of bad debts, and in doing so he made the inevitable recession about 10 times worse.

That's the option you should be choosing.