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14 Best Recession-Proof Businesses Ideas You Can Try!

Clever Girl Finance

This is because consumers become concerned about the economy or have lost their jobs and means of income. Recession-proof businesses are usually in industries that are not severely impacted by a decline in the economy. Healthcare. Here are 14 good businesses to start in a bad economy: 1. What does a recession mean?

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Thinking About Retiring Early? 8 Things to Consider First

Carson Wealth

After you’ve done this math, you might be wondering if you have “enough,” and certainly that’s hard to assess when there are so many unknowns. One cost that surprises many early retirees is healthcare – you don’t want to find out too late that it’s far more expensive than you anticipated.

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Two Years Without Health Insurance (and What I’m Doing Now)

Mr. Money Mustache

So I decided to take some action, by doing the math for myself using a spreadsheet. In our famously broken US healthcare model, an insurance company is wedged in between you and your doctors, and it has different objectives than you do. After all, shouldn’t our career and life choices be separate from our healthcare?

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

The Big Picture

I’d say management consulting is any of the other thing that least at that time was the other career trajectory, just my personality, more of a math oriented introvert. And big consumer and healthcare. And my high high school math teacher, Mr. Hyde, he was the one who taught the computer programming course.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Two reasons.

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Transcript: John Hope Bryant

The Big Picture

And he’s really moving the needle in terms of having people take control of their own financial life in a way that benefits not just them but the entire economy and all of society. Poverty, sustenance poverty is a roof over your head, food on your table, reasonable healthcare, it’s a sustenance, the ability to sustain yourself.

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

The Big Picture

So I mean, in ’07 and ’08, you know, what killed the economy in ’07 and ‘08 were mortgages going down. You executed a $4 billion IPO for your Avantor life sciences company, the largest healthcare-related IPO I think in history, is that true? RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99? KLINSKY: Yeah.

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