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Upcoming recession: Why a company like Gaper may be the right one for your startup?

Mustafa Najoom
4 min readJul 5, 2022

Let’s begin by defining the term “recession.” National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)’s monthly business cycle peaks and troughs are used by economists to identify expansionary and contractionary times in the economy.

A recession is a significant decline in economic activity across the economy that lasts for more than a few months and is usually visible in real GDP, real income, job growth, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales. A recession starts right after the economy reaches its highest point of activity and continues until the economy reaches its lowest point.

After a long period of low unemployment and strong market growth, an economic storm is brewing.

Because of historically high inflation, consumers are spending less money, which is hurting big-box retailers like Walmart and Target. Financial experts are concerned that this could be the beginning of a recession.

US GDP fell by 1.4% in the first quarter of 2022, likely due to an increase in COVID-19 cases and rising inflation. The Ukraine conflict and the stock market’s instability have contributed significantly to the broad economic woes.

Even though there is a lot of speculation that the United States will enter another…

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Mustafa Najoom
Mustafa Najoom

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