Italy's increasingly assertive resistance to German economic dogmas may not be surprising: The country has suffered from almost continuous recession since joining the euro.
The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward explain American development.
The Greek banks – vital to the provision of new investment in an economy facing a sixth year of continuous recession – have certainly not been "rescued".
Irma largely spared Puerto Rico but still knocked out power for about a million residents, which is simultaneously grappling with its worst economic crisis in modern history and has been in a near-continuous recession for the last 10 years.
CNN Money's chosen data is particularly shaky, considering their statistic on the continuous rise in shoplifting measures from 2007, before the recession began.
The rapid growth in emissions has defied efforts by governments to deal with climate change, and even though the historic recession saw some slowdown it was eventually reduced to a blip in the continuous upward path.
It also suggests that entrepreneurial attitudes and a laissez-faire approach to the urban planning of local authorities, under conditions of continuous economic recession, are the major drivers in the vitality of this process.
The spending by foreign visitors represented a 9% jump over 2012 and is the latest example of continuous growth since the Great Recession, according to the U.S. Office of Travel and Tourism Industries.
If overall economic activity falters, the research group may well argue, based on sagging employment, that the recession has been continuous since the spring of 2001.
The first is the recession.
