With the stock market down 11% from its October high, we are officially in correction territory. But not all stocks are created equal. Some companies seem to benefit from recessions and their stocks are doing very well.

Back in 2002, I was in a assembly at Babson College where the MBA admissions director was commenting on how applications were up and so were admissions. Given that the economy was very weak at the instance, I wondered how that could be. It turns out that folks think that a recession is a good duration to step out of the work force and get an MBA. They might be laid off besides and they hope that by

the day they total their degree, the economy will be in better shape.

This got me thinking about whether there was a way to invest in that trend. That’s when I discovered online learning stocks such as Apollo Group (NASDAQ: APOL). Apollo offers educational programs and services from high school through college level at 102 campuses and 157 learning centers in 40 states, Puerto Rico, Alberta, British Columbia, The Netherlands and Mexico, as well as online all through the world.

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Original post by Peter Cohan

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