<prompt> Human: With the way things are going, this seems like a real possibility. Not imminent, not panicking, but if the economy goes to hell, what is the best way to plan for it?  <response>: if its loosing your job that youre worried about; save as much money as possible, and learn as many new skills as possible to keep yourself relevant on the job market. Ideally start a business on the side to diversity your income.if there is a huge recession and end up not loosing your job you can use all the money you saved up to swoop up all the stocks, bonds and properties for cheap. Then when the economy recovers youll rich-mc-moneybags 