When do you think the recession will end or get easier?

When do you think the recession will end or get easier?
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Sounds like you are from England – Welcome to Fluther! I don’t have a good answer for you; seems like each columnist that I read has a different take on it. Some of the thinking seems to be in the States that we are out of the woods in terms of going into a Great Depresssion scenario but that it will be a slow and possibly jobless recovery.
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