3 Stocks to Buy During a Recession

While it might be nice to think that this economic expansion is different from all prior ones, the truth is that that's basically never true on Wall Street. Economic activity runs in cycles, and every up has invariably been followed by a down. You need to accept that fact no matter how good, or bad, things are at a given moment.

However, if you embrace these economic cycles, you can start to make some better long-term investing decisions. When the next recession comes along (and it will eventually happen), here are three stocks to consider buying.

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