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Curiosities: When does a recession become a depression?

Q: Whatâ??s the difference between an economic recession and a depression?

A: The “official” arbiter of recessions is the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a private, nonprofit research organization, comprised of a number of top economists, according to Stephen Malpezzi, Lorin and Marjorie Tiefenthaler Professor of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics at the Wisconsin School of Business.