Here are some charts from an article on Financial Sense. It’s a lengthy read, but loads of good info.
clipped from www.financialsense.com

“Green shoots” has become the new economic mantra used by the media to describe our current economic condition. The recession that began in December, 2007 is now in its twentieth month. You would have to go back as far as 1981–82 or 1973–74 to find a recession that has lasted this long with unemployment rates this
high.

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