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Right now, the job-loss (as a %, not raw job numbers) is about comparable to the 1981 recession. So although the press trumpets the raw numbers (they are big), the normalized-for-total-employment number is not "a catastrophe."
As Calculated Risk observes, however, the recovery periods have been getting longer.
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When will it be a catastrophe? If you're going to express an opinion at all, let's nail down the number you need for that word. Let's hope we don't have to revisit this post a year from now and say "well, I guess you can use that word now, dad!" But you never know.
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