system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Why should you not buy a house during a recession? Surely house prices are low then; buy low sell high, right?
gpt
I'll give you two simple examples of why people might not buy during a recession.  


a) If a recession is causing a decline in house prices, it's hard to know whether that decline has further to go.  


b) In a recession, you have a higher chance than usual of losing your job and it might be some time before you find a new one. Probably not the best time to take on a big financial responsibility.  


One of there reasons the business cycle exists is the way that bad economic news feeds into people's beliefs about the future and the risks they face which often drives more bad news.