Wait...Wait...Wait... Is this "Stealth Recession" you're talking about, the same thing as a recession?

Hey, I was just reading about this article about this "stealth recession" over the past 18 months or something. And I realized that the first paragraph already notes that the last recession took place in the same timeframe. Wait a minute....Are you literally saying that this "stealth recession" is the same thing as an actual recession? What kind of crank journalism is this?