Searching For America’s Missing Recession

It's hard to make a recession case for the US economy. Mostly because the US economy's not in a recession. That's supposed to be funny, but dry humor invariably falls flat in an era where satire's dead and irony's everywhere and always lost on everyone. Let me put it this way instead: The two-year search for a US recession's going about like the US military's hunt for Bush Jr.'s Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. There's just "no there there," so to speak. "Unlike a year ago, when most had a