Economic Report: Buffet Contradicts Commerce Department's Definition of Recession

Economic Report:

Last week the U.S. Commerce Department reported that the economy expanded in the first quarter of 2008 by 0.6 percent. Yesterday Warren Buffet said the economy is in a recession. The world’s richest person explained that his definition of a recession is when "people are doing less well that they were three months, six months or eight months earlier and most businesses find themselves in that position, too."