Are we in a recession? Are we not? How can we best prepare for an inevitable recession? We will explore economic research data ranging from unemployment to investment with the goal of understanding the expected impacts of a recession on our financial well-being. You don't need to be an economics professor to prepare for a recession, there are several good financial practices that most of us can apply to our lives.
About Alan Chen ('17):
Hello! My name is Alan and I'm an alumnus of Macaulay Honors College at Baruch College. You would think after attending business school, I would know how to manage my personal finances. Unfortunately financial literacy is not a skill taught in schools. I come from a low-income family and have seen first hand the negative effects of poor money management and not saving early enough for retirement. My goal is to help people retire happily. By day, I write code as a software engineer; by night, I study financial literacy and make youtube videos.