I think that the US might already be in recession. We might see that when GDP and other stats are revised in the future.
My view is that the state of finances in the US and the rest of the world is crazy. There is an absurd amount of debt, absurd evaluations, and trillions of dollars have been completely wasted on useless (or worse, on economically ruinous) activities in the US, Europe, China, Japan, and emerging markets.
I believe that the world's foolish experiment with megaKeynsianism will work out badly.
If so, look for Paul Krugman to tell us that we failed by not pouring enough Keynsian gasoline on the raging debt fire.