<prompt> Human: So I got curious when a very odd but intelligent friend started raving about the incoming crash. I dont follow investing much and Im already frugal but his ravings have made me paranoid. Im only 17, in my last year of Secondary School and I only work in the summer as I focus on my studies. I live at home and have been discussing it with my dad because he ran a business from 1997-2013 and asked him how he stayed afloat and if he has saved up in case of an economic crash. To my surprise he hasnt and Ive been trying to pile research to convince but Im not quite convinced myself. Any advice on this matter?Edit: The people downvoting this are forgetting the purpose of the upvotedownvote system. En masse downvoting doesnt prove my opinion is wrong it just proves youre afraid of hearing it.Edit 2: In retrospect I should have but links to evidence suggesting an economic crash, links below:Evidence Assistant: People have been predicting economic disaster for hundreds of years. They are rarely right. Human: This isnt your local drunk losing his pocket change and claiming financial ruin, this is people who saw the 2008 crash and its wave of ruin coming. Theres a lot of data out there suggesting such.  <response>: When you have experts predicting a crash almost every year, some of them will inevitably be right. That doesnt mean theyll be right twice. Show me someone who has predicted the last 2-3 recessions with no false alarms in between. 