Hi folks, Jack Spirko here. Today you are listening to an episode of TSP Rewind.

Commercial free versions of past episodes podcast blast from the past.

I put these up when I can't do a show due to professional commitments or rare vacations.

These podcasts will appear in standard iTunes, Stitcher, and other feeds,

but will be titled TSP Rewind episodes and numbered accordingly.

And today we rewind back to October the 13th, 2015,

so around seven and a half years ago, eight years ago almost.

It's kind of crazy to think about 2015 being seven years ago, isn't it?

Anyway, this episode was called The Great Recession that will never end.

And I would say that today it sounds an awful lot like current events episode.

Like, let's talk about what's going on right now.

Because so much of what's in it has come to pass.

And I wanted to kind of give you a new way to listen to this episode.

Because I re-listened to about half of it as I was doing all my prep work to get out of here with Rewinds.

And I realized that something in it may not be totally clear when I say The Great Recession that will never end.

I am going all the way back, not just to 2008,

but I'm going all the way back to like the late 90s, early 2000s all the way into the future

as all being part of the Great Recession.

And maybe hard to understand because we've had good times and bad times throughout that period

which is now shocking to say more than two decades long.

But I think that we have this whole off-the-cliff mentality that until the bus goes over the cliff

and all the children fall out the windows and it catches on fire, it's not really a crash.

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