Different Opinion

Is a "Recession" really going on in US economy? Is US currently in the state of recession? Are US citizens face-to-face with recession? Are people living under the fear of ending up with loss of their jobs, losing into stack markets, going bankrupt, heading to ever highest inflation in the economy, huge downfall in property rates and a lot more.....

Recession is a state when country's GDP or Gross Domestic Product descents for two sequential quarters. Recession in an economy focuses on negative growth of GDP over two consecutive quarters. This negative growth during recession is more seeable in people's income, bank balances, payroll systems, lowering employment opportunities, reducing retail sales, lower investment returns and various others.

As per experts, the normal period of recession in an economy is about 1-2 years. The whole economy slows down during recession which leads to panic in the country. The hard time of downfall causes lot of stress in the economy. People point out the root of recession towards government. On the other hand, it is important to know that recession is somehow deflation. If the government tries to improve on economy's GDP, it has to invest in a lot more money in order to improve liquidity. But this causes an increase in inflation and ultimately stagflation. Hence, government has to make a choice whether to increase liquidity or reduce increase rate.

The U.S. GDP was down 0.2% in the third quarter of 2008, with U.S. economists forecasting a 0.8% fall in the fourth quarter. International Monetary Fund experts forecast the U.S. economy's growth at 1.6% for 2008. However, they say, in 2009 the U.S. GDP is expected to increase by only 0.1%. Recession has lead to a reduction in global economic growth in U.S., from this year's 3.9% to 3% in 2009, according to IMF experts. Each quarterly GDP report gets three releases..... In their Q3 2008 GDP report, the preliminary report showed a slowdown of .5%, slightly more than the advance estimate of .3% while advance report showed a downfall in growth by .3%, the second time in a year.

During the rough sledding of recession, with all the above mentioned consequences, people certainly look for options to successfully deal with the alarming situation and emerge out of it without getting much affected. But since we survive in this economy, we can't get rid of such a national downfall when every other citizen is suffering. Certainly there are ways to beat the recession in the economy and come out as a more confident one. Lowering down interest rates is one of the major steps that government can take to slightly correct the situation. Everyone in the economy has to be focused towards what they do best. Spend less on luxuries, stick to the necessities, save money are the best steps one can do in their general lives. People should not lose hope and confidence as these are the best remedies to success. After all, this is not the end of the world.