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James H. Stock
Professor of Public Policy, HKS; Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, FAS

Excerpt

July 19, 2021, Paper: "The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research maintains a chronology of the peaks and troughs of US business cycles. The committee has determined that a trough in monthly economic activity occurred in the US economy in April 2020. The previous peak in economic activity occurred in February 2020. The recession lasted two months, which makes it the shortest US recession on record."

HKS Author - James Stock