1 Do not capitalize general positions or titles. For example, capitalize Mother when that is the name a person uses to address his or her mother.  Capitalize positions or titles when they refer to specific people or agencies, such as Social Security Administrator or Agency (referring to a specific agency).
This recession lasted ten months (July 1953 - May 1954). It resulted from the demobilization after the Korean War. Unemployment didn't reach its peak of 6.1 percent until September 1954, four months after the recession ended. GDP contracted 2.2 percent in Q3, 5.9 percent in Q4, and 1.8 percent in Q1 1954.
According to the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research (the official arbiter of U.S. recessions) the U.S. recession began in December 2007 and ended in June 2009, and thus extended over 19 months. The Great Recession was related to the U.S. financial crisis of 2007â08 and subprime mortgage crisis of 2007â09.