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The Business Cycle Boom, Bust, Recovery

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A FRED watchlist has students plot real GDP, payrolls, the unemployment rate, and the yield curve spread back to 1980 and mark which NBER recession bars they can explain. Discussion work asks why the bureau waited 13 months to announce the 2009 trough.

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