The government did not stop calling recessions by accident. Jordi Visser @jvisserlabs says it is a monopoly. On Anthony Pompliano's @APompliano show, Visser pointed to two straight quarters of negative GDP growth that never got labeled a recession. His read: the people who define recession understand the market cannot absorb one for long, so a slowdown that would have counted a decade ago quietly stops counting. Add a monetary bazooka ready to fire at any real downturn, and Visser does not expect to see an 18-month recession again in his lifetime. Two negative quarters only equals a recession if the people who track it are willing to say so. Podcast Alpha tracks which macro rules still hold and which ones quietly stopped applying, subscribe for the next one. Source: Anthony Pompliano -