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Another Great Long-Form Exploration by John Oliver: Bias in Medicine [VIDEO]

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Eclectic Cyborg8/19/2019 2:45:59 pm PDT

re: #189 Blind Frog Belly White

But, you know, it’s easy to forget given the depth of the crash in 2008 and the length of the subsequent expansion, but recession/expansion/recession/expansion is how the economy goes. Since I became an adult, there have been 5 cycles. This is the longest expansion, but also it was preceded by the deepest recession. It’s how it works. The swings used to be a lot more violent, before the Fed started regulating them.

I recall recessions in the early 90s, the early 2000s and then of course the great recession. We’ve been in a growth period for about 7 years now, which is certainly getting long in the tooth. I’d be shocked to not a see a new recession in the next several years time.