Lafayette metropolitan area primed for double dip in recession, says report

Greater Lafayette earned a spot on an unenviable list this week.

The community was included among 22 metropolitan areas nationwide that are at risk of slipping back into recession during the next three months, according to a new report from an analyst at Moody's Economy.com

Authors of the report put the chance of a national double-dip recession at about one in four, but went further to say that the areas listed may experience their own downturns in the first half of 2011.