Recessions

Despite all the calls for recessions, we've only had four recessions in the last 40 years.

Recessions – and even the threat of recessions – have the effect of making policymakers focus on the short term. Stretched public finances coupled with the desire to remain popular engenders a growth at all costs mentality.

After all, stock prices usually economic news—drops precede recessions, bumps precede expansions—and ten-plus years is a long time to go between recessions (regardless of their severity).

Government responses seeAlso Most mainstream economists believe that recessions are caused by inadequate aggregate demand in the economy, and favor the use of expansionary macroeconomic policy during recessions.

Responsiveness to recessions: This point is closely related to responsiveness to cost changes, because recessions cause a drop in demand.

But it is shallower than what we've seen in the last couple of recessions, put it that way.

Dr. Gupta also pointed out that the teens the ages of his daughters have grown up in a world with major wars, two recessions, climate change issues and other stresses on top of everything else.

Enforced Lockdown recessions were very different from the GFC credit crunch and fiscal policy also supported employment via furlough schemes during Covid.

Enterprise Products’ high-quality assets generate strong cash flow, even in recessions.

Fears of recessions have dampened investor spending as rising costs and weaker growth forecasts had penetrated several businesses.

Global warming will cause costs equivalent to one or two recessions over the rest of this century.

Historically, the UK's economy has been rescued from downturns and recessions by small businesses.

However, these estimates might be a bit optimistic because the average trough forward PE during non-financial crisis recessions is actually 13 to 15.

I think that that’s the one upside in this is that it’s different from past recessions,” she said.

Let us begin by acknowledging that the banking sector has encountered economic recessions in the past.

Most of the discussion has focused on the inversion of the curve (that is that short rates are now higher than long rates) and the power yield curve inversion has for predicting recessions.

NLY has been through two recessions, and its dividends surged during both of them.

No sector is immune from all recessions, and this unknown makes preparation difficult.

Note that INTC went into the 2001 and 2008 recessions with far less bloat on its balance sheet and it still got creamed.

On a 12-month average basis, they have declined for ten straight months, which is a streak of declines that has often been associated with recessions.