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by GlennS 1549 days ago
Other people have given you pretty good answers already, but...

If you're an individual with some spare cash, buying stocks during a recession is probably a good idea, even if they falling.*

If you're a population, you probably don't have much spare cash.

There's some time lag stuff going on in there too.

*Blah blah 1990s Japan blah blah global diversification.