The Truth About Recessions

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Why Do Recessions Happen? – Second Thought
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Citations and Further Reading:

Why capitalism seems inescapable
https://youtu.be/PaASqPnpq5Y

Economic planning
https://youtu.be/xuBrGaVhjcI

GDP + recessions graph
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDP

2008 stats
https://www.investopedia.com/news/10-years-later-lessons-financial-crisis

Recessions’ negative effects
https://www.bis.org/publ/work910.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4930372/
http://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/345/bmj.e5142.full.pdf
https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-016-2720-y

Degrowth
https://books.google.com/books?id=mstzEAAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover
https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/utopia1313/files/2022/11/What-does-degrowth-mean-A-few-points-of-clarification.pdf
https://proteanmag.com/2023/01/15/degrowth-is-anti-capitalist/
https://www.sd-commission.org.uk/data/files/publications/prosperity_without_growth_report.pdf
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2022-03-07/degrowth-is-not-recession-nor-is-it-austerity/

Marxist theory of crises
https://youtu.be/WvGIdRJfGho
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/socialistvoice/marx19.html

How capitalists profit from crisis (graphs) and inflation
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2014/05/15/profit-from-crisis-why-capitalists-do-not-want-recovery-and-what-that-means-for-america
https://bnarchives.yorku.ca/414/2/nb_20141000_can_capitalists_afford_recovery_recasp.pdf
https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2021/11/24/the-truth-about-inflation/

Corporate landlords
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/magazine/wall-street-landlords.html

JPMorgan Chase stock goes up during 2008
https://www.ft.com/content/45710c36-5429-11dd-aa78-000077b07658


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