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15 Recession-Proof Businesses That Thrive in Any Economy

Clever Girl Finance

These include sectors like healthcare, food, repair services, and childcare. These businesses typically operate in industries like healthcare, food, repair services, and personal care. If you’re looking for good businesses to start in a bad economy, the healthcare industry makes the list.

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Transcript: Velina Peneva, Swiss Re Chief Investment Officer

The Big Picture

I took a lot of math classes. I couldn’t give up math in computer science. Hey, I lose my job, I lose my healthcare. So be it healthcare, right. For, for, and yet all the medical schools seem to be filled Velina Peneva : Exactly. But for me, this was not an option. And I’m pretty mathematically oriented.

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Retirement Algebra, Solving For U

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Before yeah butting me about long term care insurance, I've seen content (sorry no link) about LTC insurance not keeping up anywhere close to the inflation rate of healthcare costs. If that money is in an IRA, that is going to change your math considerably due to having to withdraw all of that inherited IRA within 10 years.

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Transcript: Lisa Shalett, CIO Morgan Stanley

The Big Picture

00:31:40 [Speaker Changed] So there’s the emotions and then there’s the math, right? I, you know, I, I do do the math when I, when I do some of my, my chats with the younger folks on the, on the team and I say, okay, real growth inflation term premium, you see this thing, it’s been zero or negative for the last 15 years.

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Planning for Retirement Means Planning for Healthcare Too

WiserAdvisor

What many underestimate (often drastically) is the size of the piece of that plan that should be devoted to healthcare. This article is a deep dive into healthcare costs in retirement. The overlooked cost of retirement: Healthcare expenses Let’s start with a number most people underestimate, by a lot. to 2 times.

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Transcript: Stephanie Kelton on US Fiscal Policy and the ‘Deficit Myth’

The Big Picture

Deficits can be used to accomplish big things like, you know, repairing crumbling infrastructure, improving our healthcare education systems and, and so on and so forth. Wasn’t the Excel spreadsheet error, which changed their math. So we should talk about deficits for whom? Deficits for what, right?

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Transcript: Bill Bernstein on Navigating Uncertainty

The Big Picture

Yeah, you have to, you know, the conceit of finance is that basically the math is all there is to it. So you mentioned half math, half Shakespeare. Let’s talk about the math side. Ivanka said, oh no, you don’t have to be able to do math to do real estate 00:20:13 [Speaker Changed] Or investing for that math.