A new Wall Street Journal survey says that a majority of economists think that the recession is over ? and that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is doing a great job of managing the recovery.

The Takeaway decided to put together our OWN panel of people to test that theory, and to tell us if they think the recession is over. On our panel of recession experts this morning are both old friends and new: Jim Svetz, an owner of a wine bar in upstate New York; Greg Goodnight, the Mayor of Kokomo, Indiana; Cliff Hagedon, a trucker in Florida; and Kelly Evans, from the Wall Street Journal.