9 Good Habits For A Deep Recession
Keep A Cool Head
Freaking out and selling all of your investments, or stopping your contributions to your 401k because you’re panicking isn’t going to help you in the long term. Don’t put your emotions in charge of your money.
Learn To Dislike Debt And Pay It Off
So-called “consumer debt” [...]
No, it’s not just you — the U.S. economy really is bewildering. The government says gross domestic product expanded at an annual rate of nearly 4 percent in the third quarter, the fastest pace in a year and a half. The stock market is still up by 4 percent for this year, despite a sharp 3 [...]
March 31, 2008 — There’s no magic bullet, says Steven Fazzari, economics professor at Washington University in St. Louis. The root cause of the current economic slowdown in the U.S. goes back several decades. There has been a concurrent wave of increasing consumer spending and rising consumer indebtedness. In the past, consumer spending actually helped the [...]
There is growing talk on Wall Street about the possibility of a recession. Since the beginning of the year three Wall Street firms (Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs) have all stated they believe we are either in a recession already or are very close to a recession. In other words, it’s no longer a [...]