Well, howdy there, internet people, it's Bell again.

So today, we're going to talk about whether your state is in a recession.

If you've missed it, there's been a bunch of memes and articles going around, saying some states are in recession.

This has prompted a lot of questions.

Our metal shop guys have been kind enough to send us a message

that has all the questions being asked.

Quote, can a state go into recession and not the country?

The guy you said you probably wouldn't contradict, said that 20-something states were in recession.

But there's some debate here about what that even means.

If almost half the states are in recession, doesn't that mean the country is going into

recession?

What does it mean for people in that state? Okay. So Mark Zandi,

who is the chief economist at Moody's Analytics, put out some information after combing through

state level data. He found that 22 were on the brink of recession.

Those states are Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,

Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming, Washington State, and Washington, D.C.

D.C. is an estate, but there you go. So the questions, can a state go into recession? Yes, absolutely.

It's just not normally data that gets tracked and discussed on a national level. That's why these show is important. Recession is generally defined as two consecutive quarters of GDP contraction.

States and even cities track their GDP.

Think of a small town that had a big factory that closed.

That town would go into recession.

If almost half the states are in recession, doesn't that mean the country will be?

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