The first rule about not causing a recession is to not call it a recession, but don't blame us - ECRI, among others, has let the cat out of the bag. Wary of a recession for the first time in several years, we jumped into our time machine to see what advice we were giving people during the last recession (approximately 2001-2002). Here's some advice we were giving readers of SI Review magazine at that time. Click here to read our blog.