is the United States about to go into a recession? And whose fault is it? And what actually

causes recessions? And what exactly is a recession? Well, if you stick with us on this episode,

we're going to explain all of those things. Because today, we're going to talk about what a recession

is, what causes them, and what you can actually do about it. All that and more coming up on this

episode of making the argument.

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Thank you for joining us. So I am your host, Nick Freitas, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, but other than that, a reasonably good person.

With us is always my beautiful bride, Tina Queen of the Bees.

Hello, everyone.

We also have our resident historian and political prognosticator, Christian.

Hello?

And then, of course, our producer of producers, Nicholas Hamilton, the good Hamilton, the one that doesn't like central banking.

All true things.

And it's a good thing you don't like central banking because that is going to be one of the topics that we discussed today with respect to what causes recessions.

Because this term gets thrown around a lot and sometimes it gets thrown around by people

that I don't think actually know what it is.

And look, there's no reason why you would necessarily know what the technical definition

of a recession is.

But we figured, you know what, this would be a good topic talking about what are, because

because we have people right now that have been suggesting for the last, I mean, the same

people that were saying inflation's not happening or inflation's overblown or this is just

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