Why is everyone still referring to the recent financial crisis as the "Great Recession"?
The term, after all, is predicated on a dangerous misdiagnosis of the problems that confront the United States and other countries, leading to bad forecasts and bad policy.
The phrase "Great Recession" creates the impression that the economy is following the contours of a typical recession, only more severe — something like a really bad cold.
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