Part Three: How to make money during a recession

There’s a rising anxiety about the U.S. economy. Fueling this is the news of major financial companies taking huge losses due to subprime mortgage defaults, slumping home values, and consumers' purchasing power being sapped by high energy and food prices. According to public surveys, these are above half of people believing the economy is already in a recession.   read more »

Part Two: Why do the Rscessions happen?

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Part One: What do the Recession mean?

On Jan. 21, 2008, stock prices tumbled around the world. Most analysts attributed a possible recession as the reason for the drop. Three days later, news outlets were already reporting a new economic stimulus package, designed in part to try to prevent a recession.

Then, what do the Recession mean?  read more »