[user104658]

Well I don't own my own business (very thankfully at the moment, as most who do are ****ed) but as for the industry I'm in... It's gambling. People will bet pounds, dollars, euros, gold dubloons, chickens, bundles of unprocessed wheat tied together with string... Kirk will tell you that

And you know what recession does? Makes people poorer, so they become more desperate for money, so they think "Hmmmm I'll gamble even more so I can win more".

Its a horrible parasite of an industry, it really is.