The entire use of the word "normal" makes no sense to me.  Business cycles are normal, because markets are not perfect.  Factors don't adjust immediately.  As I've pointed out, the 2001 crash was not, technically, a recession, since we never had two consecutive quarters of contraction.  (Why, by the way, do my fellow economists insist on calling it "negative growth"?  Is that anything like "jumbo shrimp"?)  And that's, obviously very odd looking at history.  Same story in Britain.  Yes, I'd say that above-average growth is certainly a normal part of a normal process.

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