Recession or nah?

Is a recession looming? If only we could get experts to agree on a definitive answer. What we do know, however, is that consumers and businesses are buying less due to high inflation. This also has ramifications for big tech companies, like Meta’s struggle with declining revenue.

What does that mean for most people? For one, it might mean that we’ll be looking at cutting down on non-essential purchases and trying to be more conscious about what we spend hard-earned cash on. If being more financially aware has been on your adulting bucket list for a while, this turn of events might be a good opportunity to achieve that. We’ve curated a few recently launched products that can help you.

Monse connects all of your accounts to automatically categorize all of your expenses. It also sends you a summary of all your transactions, either in a daily, weekly, or monthly email.

Cashews acts as your smart personal accountant. It connects with 12K+ banks and shows you precisely how much you can spend to take the stress out of your cost of living. We wrote more about it here.

Uprise looks at your whole financial picture and gives recommendations on how to optimize it – what accounts to use, tax strategies, how to use your employee benefits, and more. You can read more about its founding story here and how the team wants to help add $1.5M to your lifetime net worth.

Habitual Money uses a smart-rule engine (similar to Gmail filters) to auto-categorize purchases, track your true take-home income and savings, and integrate with your Venmo and Amazon accounts.

If you’re the type of person who doesn’t like to have cash lying around and prefers to invest, there are tools you can use to make sure you’re making data-backed decisions and minimizing risk.

Claritus’ ​​personal wealth management platform lets you view all of their assets and investments in one place, providing personalized monthly and weekly digest reports.

Gainy helps you ​​discover unique investment ideas based on your interests and risk/reward profile.

How are you preparing for a downturn? Join the conversation.

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