ISM Manufacturing Report for March Comes in at 50.9%
That would be “expansion” — not by much, but expansion nonetheless.
Memo to the New York Times (since I don’t see in this Times search where the original claim of a manufacturing recession has been retracted or corrected): Manufacturing is NOT in a recession, and the current ISM report is the second in a row showing expansion since your bogus report was called out (February’s ISM report with a 52.3% reading is here).
