单选题 .  Stop worrying about recession. That is the message from America's R-word index. For each quarter, we     1    how many stories in the New York Times and the Washington Post include the word "recession".     2    bells were set     3    by the sharp jump in the "R-count" in the first quarter of this year, at a rate that in the past has     4    the start of a recession. In the second quarter,     5    , the number of articles     6    by more than one-third. A conspiracy theorist might suggest that newspaper editors,     7    about dwindling advertising revenues, have     8    the R-word.
    The Economist has found that     9    the past two decades, the R-word index has been good at     10    turning-points in the American economy.     11    GDP figures which appear     12    after a lag, the numbers are instantly available. But how does the index perform in Germany,     13    there have also been     14    fears of recession? Using our idea, HypoVereins bank has     15    an R-word index for Germany, counting the number of times the word recession     16    in Handelsblatt.
    Worryingly, Germany's R-count for the first quarter of 2001 showed the second-steepest     17        in the past two decades. But in the second quarter, the index dropped by one-third,     18    in America.     19    the world economy has nothing to worry about, or journalists are more worried about a     20    than a mere recession. A D-word index?1.