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Personal Finance > Financial Planning Surviving the economic crunch: What can you do?

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Surviving an economic crunch is not much different than what you should be doing during good times. Good times just make it less likely that you will find yourself enduring a financial crisis. In good times and bad, the successful strategy is the same: build up savings and eliminate or avoid debt. Should that not be enough and you find yourself in a financial crisis the added strategy is to make more money.

BUILD UP SAVINGS

Building up savings is a great goal for anytime. Savings in this case are funds that can be counted upon in an emergency - "emergency fund". This emergency fu...

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