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Topic
Board Economics
Re: Can One Get Rich or At least Not go Broke During a Recession?
by
Iroh
on 30/11/2022, 18:03:28 UTC
Recession is coming and we know it. In some places it is staring us right in the face. Unemployment, rising cost of living, increasing food prices, falling stocks etc are some of the negative effects associated with recession. Despite this seemingly bad news, Warren Buffet said “In short, bad news is an investor’s best friend”. And another quote by someone goes thus "millionaires are made during a recession". I have been recently laid-off work due to the recent economic crisis in my country. I do not want to see this as a bad thing. So I ask what hidden opportunities does this recession offer? How can one take opportunity of the recession to become rich or at least not go broke?


Hearing about lay offs always put me off. I’m sorry to hear that you’ve been let go.
As to your question, in a recession, it is difficult if not almost impossible for the average individual to become rich. The only people that gets rich anytime, every time are high management CEOs of multinational corporations and politicians that are as crooked as they come. Your options at the moment is to sadly not to go broke.

Where entrepreneurship isn’t available as in this case, skills are very much needed. If the OP had any skills, he could get by fairly as there are some short term job offers that needs skilled workers.
During a recession, folks(mostly politicians in my opinion) that deal in insider trading are the ones that become millionaires during recession.

Hopefully, you’ve got some savings to fall back on or even better, you’ve got about 40 BTC  that you’ve been holding for years stashed somewhere