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| Recession? Depression? Does it matter what you call it? (Photo credit: Renegade98) |
In the past week, Spain and the United Kingdom revealed that they had slipped back into recession, with two straight quarters of economic contraction.
In all, 12 European economies are now officially in recession.
Germany, the largest euro economy and the fourth largest worldwide, could be next: Its economy shrank 0.2% in the last three months of 2011, and it is expected to show another contraction when it releases data for the first quarter in mid-May.
“It’s quite likely the German economy also contracted at very modest pace in the first quarter, which would technically fulfill the recession criteria,” said Christian Schulz, a London-based economist at Berenberg Bank, the oldest private bank in Germany... Continue to read.
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