Author: Ben Carlson
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The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) announced this month the recession officially ended in April 2020.
Anyone paying attention has known this for some time now but NBER has their process for calculating these things and it takes some time.
At two months long, this was the shortest recession in U.S. history.
NBER has data on the length of recessions going back to the 1850s:
Not only is this the shortest reces…