Many more people are talking about a coming recession as the current expansion becomes one of the longest in history (see chart below courtesy of www.macrotrends.net). Business cycles are nothing new and certainly we can expect a recession to come eventually, but no one can accurately predict when it will arrive or how long it will last. Indeed, some have even said they expect the next recession to be relatively mild and short-lived (we can all hope), but there is no way to know that for sure. The longer the current expansion lasts and as