I have twice been playing a scenario - most recently New Beginning - and I'm well along in the game. And the economy goes into a recession. And it just stays there for years. Which means the profits drop, and the stock price starts declining. Looks like the stock price takes an immediate drop whenever the status makes a negative move. Then in a recession it continues to drift downward. So the players equity drops and goes negative and the margin calls start coming. So I try to prop it up with paying a good dividend and doing stock buy-backs. Eventually reaching the point where either the bonds are maxed out or the credit rating has dropped below B.
![thumbs_down !*th_dwn*!](./images/smilies/not_ok.gif)
So in frustration 2 times now I have gone back to a save game before the company got all loaned out. And jumped into the editor and added an event. Which I called Economic Stimulus. Set it to trigger in a month or 2 from the current calendar. Handed out some player cash and some company cash. And set a variable for Economic Status with a plus 1. Then jumped back to the game.
Which worked,
![Very Happy :-D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)