"I just don't want to see another big recession," said Nancy Suhreptz, a legal secretary.

The recession that has now ended - cross your fingers as you read this - was worse than either of the past two big recessions.

"Rolling readjustments" lie ahead, he said, but not a big recession.

Even in a big recession, people still buy for their pets.

BMW was among the automakers whose sales were hurt in the industry's last big recession, from 1990 to 1992.

Well it now seems clear they have engineered a much bigger recession.

"Barring a big recession, next year should be profitable."

"He said that given the debt overhang, a potentially big recession is out there," she said.

When a big recession happened in 2007, Keynesian economics became more popular.

A 5 percent level would be the highest unemployment since the last big recession in the early 1980's.