Is it really? It sure doesn't feel like it! (I'm losing my corporate fat-cat job at the end of this month. Yikes!)

No, two of the best and most objective forecasters, who are not connected to investment banks or to the CNBC noise machine, have recently called the upturn. Macroeconomic Advisers, the St. Louis-based consulting firm that compiles a monthly GDP index, reported to its clients Monday that while second-quarter GDP was tracking at negative 0.1 percent (recession), the third quarter was tracking at 2.4 percent growth.

The recession is over! (Technically.) – By Daniel Gross – Slate Magazine