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Don't you think everyone would feel better if there were an agency that could actually step forward and say, "We are now officially in a correction," the way the government does with recessions?
Over the past 30 years, macroeconomics--and especially that part of macroeconomics that concerns itself with recessions and depressions, in which the economy as a whole is less than the sum of its parts--has fallen steadily into disfavor within the economics profession.
Assuming that recessions haven't been rendered permanently extinct by the eight-year Long Boom, the reappearance of one before the 2000 election would be extremely inconvenient for Al Gore, whose platform essentially boils down to: "I don't like what Bill Clinton did with his wanker, but I sure do like what he did with the U.S. economy."
They argued that as long as governments themselves followed stable policies--and as long as the economy was sufficiently "flexible" (the all-purpose answer to economic difficulties)--there would be few serious recessions.
Above all, the Fed is free to respond to actual or threatened recessions by pumping in money.