Many believe US is already in recession
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Empty homes and for-sale signs clutter neighborhoods. You've lost your job or know someone who has. Your paycheck and nest egg are taking a hit. Could the country be in recession?
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REBATE DOUBTS: Despite remarkably quick passage, the economic aid plan and its cash rebates may come too late to prevent a recession this year. Critics say debt-burdened consumers will use the money to pay bills rather than spending the checks and spurring growth.
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Reports on factory orders and the labor market  portrayed an economy that is skirting recession as attention shifts to government figures on employment to be released Friday.
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One in three Americans expects a U.S. recession in the next year, and less than a quarter think home prices will rise, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
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Slowing real estate sales coupled with the subprime mortgage mess are two of the reasons some people say a recession is nigh.
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For anyone who is worried about the economy, 2008 is off to a lousy start.
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The odds of a U.S. recession stand  at nearly 50 percent amid a spate of data showing a weakening  labor market, signs of more credit tightening and turmoil in  the financial markets, the latest Blue Chip Economic forecast  is projecting.
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Some think the market's travail is a short-term correction. They are kidding themselves. Hide in T bills until it's safe.
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Pressure is mounting for the US government to act soon to prevent a recession.
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The Motley Fool - We're heading into a recession. You've heard about it for months, even years, what with the housing bubble, the war in Iraq, overextended consumer credit -- you name it. A recent Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER - News) report says that the U.S. economy will grow by only 1.9% next year, down from 3.4% this year, and slower than the global growth rate of 5.2%. Even slowpoke Europe should pass us at 2.1%, though the U.S. is ahead of the average European GDP growth rate of 2.7%.
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The US has seen the first decline in employment since August 2003, in a fresh sign that a recession is looming.
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The odds have grown that the economy will slip into a recession. At the beginning of last year, many economists put that chance at less than 1-in-3; now an increasing number says it has climbed to around 50-50
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Oil prices are starting to have an impact  on the level of economic activity in the United States, but it  is too early to say the economy has entered a recession, Energy  Secretary Sam Bodman said on Wednesday.
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Company bosses around the world see a global recession as a major threat, a survey suggests.
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Reports on factory orders and the labor market portrayed an economy that is skirting recession as attention shifts to government figures on employment to be released Friday.
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Plunging housing prices and soaring oil costs have provoked gloomy talk of a possible recession. Yet the economy has kept growing. How much longer can the expansion carry on? How much longer can the expansion carry on?
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Plunging housing prices and soaring oil costs have provoked gloomy talk of a possible recession. Yet the economy has kept growing. How much longer can the expansion carry on?   How much longer can the expansion carry on?