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Filed under: Stocks to Buy, Recession, Best Stocks for 2009

One group of stocks to own during a recession is the education space, and my favorite name is ITT Educational Services (NYSE: ESI).

With unemployment rising, workers having difficulty finding jobs turn to education as a way to improve prospects.

With the growth of the Internet, the educational space has changed over the years. Brick-and-mortar schools have fallen behind the online degree providers. With a cost-effective and flexible program, online schools have been experiencing solid growth during this recession.

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Despite the recent rally, this has been the most difficult period for investors since the Great Depression, and many trying to time a bottom in this market have been burned.

And the reality is that we are still not out of the woods. So is it time to give up?

Not at all!

Filed under: Industry, Stocks to Buy, Recession

Financial winter is here and the temperature of the market seems to be dropping anew. Credit markets are frozen and the line for government handouts grows by the day. There is no easy fix to the morass.

That much is clear.

As such, we will have plenty of time to contemplate exactly where it is we want to go from here. Hopefully, we won't make the same mistakes twice, and, in that way, some good may come out of the carnage after all.

I was looking through the list of the top % gainers on the NYSE today and saw that an old favorite of mine, ITT Educational Services (ESI) had made the list, trading at $91.25, up $7.88 or 9.45% today as I write. I do not own any shares of ESI nor do I have any options on this stock.