";s:4:"text";s:6134:" Your best defence against a recession is to structure your financial life according to some basic principles: save up for a rainy day, don’t put all your eggs in one basket and sharpen your resume. It didn’t last long but it was an amazing thing to see friends and family doing while it lasted.I was working as an estimator in an auto body shop at the time of the 2008 crash. I invested heavily in my 401(k) plan at work while the market was down figuring that I’d either do really well or go down with the ship.
A sampling of the longest ones:Sources: National Bureau of Economic Research, U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Labor StatisticsGDP data is annual before 1947, quarterly after; unemployment data is annual before 1948, monthly after; method of measuring unemployment changed after 1947 In terms of the depth of the downturn, it might well be worse than the recession of 2007-2009. Got a job at Enterprise Rent-A-Car making $19k ($36k today in inflation-adjuster dollars), during a period of nationwide expansion, but that turned out okay because insurance related stuff (Enterprise does most of its business in insurance replacement rentals) is functionally recession-proof since it’s one of those things people need whether the economy is good or bad, like toilet paper. The widening shadow of recession. Do not make any investment decisions based on the information in those article. But the National Bureau of Economic Research, which has a “dating committee” dedicated to declaring recessions, makes it clear that there are other criteria that can constitute a recession.
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