Global Recession- views from my dad

I asked my dad a few months ago regarding the current economic situation. I was wondering how the economy would recover as I would consider this as my first time in my life to face a recession.
They say in life you would at least encounter one recession in the economy.
Well, my dad gave me a shocking answer:

"In order for the economy to recover, there would be a war." And he spoke so calmly about it.

"Huh,WAR???"
I was astonished... I thought I heard wrongly.

"How come it would need a war?"

"Well, the last time, the economy was that bad was during the depression, and the economy recovered after the world war 2", he said, reflecting on the history of things that happened.

You see, my dad is always good with History, and he can tell you a lot of stories, REAL stories about war too. He was also good at predicting things and have wise remarks, sometimes shocking remarks like this time. Anyway, I took his words as words of wisdom and see if things would really happen that way or not.

A few weeks later, I was curious to find out if he was sure things would happen as he had mentioned, then well, he can let people know about it, and be FAMOUS when your predictions come true!
But his wise reply was "You cannot say that there will be war in order for the global recession to end, cause you will be called a WARMONGER."

Oh, there again, his remarks made me pause to think in surprise. I haven't heard of the word "warmonger" for quite awhile. And being called a "warmonger" seems like a crime.

Now, after a few months since his views about the global recession, today's news published "Global Recession worst since WW2":
"And with the tremendous number of unemployed people comes the possibility of political unrest."

Shhh... we still are in the midst of a bleak and dark economy, let us wait to see what happens.... and please don't mention about war although it may be true.