Recessions are good for business. Plain and simple.<p>The media does their best to try and scare you into doing all sounds of bizarre and nonsensical things when the markets "crash." Really, if you employ basic facts and logic, the best thing to do is just business as usual.<p>Stop futzing with saving money and buy stuff -- that's how a market works and keeps functioning! It's Econ 101! I'm sure most of you smart fellas on Hacker News already knew that though. :)