Nov 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM EST
Ask HN: Is America in Recession?
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Official numbers say the U.S. isn’t in recession—does real life feel different?
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17h ago
Not sure about the US, but IT industry in Canada definitely is in a recession. When good graduates from Waterloo CS cannot find an entry level job, you know something is wrong.
1d ago
If you are talking about as defined by NBER there is no “official numbers”. Recession by that definition is a) not a fixed set of numbers, the board determines it each time based on lots of different things and they aren’t necessarily the same metrics every time and b) explicitly a backwards looking descriptive designation. Most of the time you will be _through_ a recession before it’s declared.
1d ago
They’re running out of cards to stack up in the form of a house
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