Every time there is a recession, consumers will typically be more cautious, more conservative, take more time, and make more serious price-performance trade-offs.
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People stop buying things, and that is how you turn a slowdown into a recession.
A recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from, the majority of people have always lived in a recession.
With every year that passes, the more we have to be careful not to forget the causes and consequences of the Great Recession.
If there's a severe recession, the automatic stabilizers will come into effect, and we will still try to reduce the structural deficit, but we will not try to keep cutting the budget so that we keep worsening a severe recession.
A normal recession disrupts people's lives, but a long recession destroys them. You lose output, prosperity, family stability, self-esteem, and many other qualities on what looks to be a semi-permanent basis.
In a recession, people want to be told for two hours that everything is going to be OK. They want to escape from their humdrum or painful reality into a feel-good drama, or a love story that transcends their daily life.
I think that in the near term the only threat to demand is some form of recession here in the United States.
In response to the recession, the Obama administration chose to emphasize costly, short-term fixes - ineffective stimulus programs, myriad housing programs that went nowhere, and a rush to invest in 'green' companies. As a consequence, uncertainty over policy - particularly over tax and regulatory policy - slowed the recovery.
The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy.
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