I want to be in complete control of my life and finances and not have to worry about living paycheck to paycheck, layoffs, trying to beat out my peers to get that promotion only to have to then work longer hours.

When you are dealing with direct-to-seller acquisitions, problems are everywhere: divorce, death, bankruptcy, illness, layoffs.

The country is rapidly heading into a recession (and possibly WWIII depending on which news you chose to consume) and I think we've only just begun to get a little taste of what is to come with gas prices, rate hikes, supply chain issues, failed crops, droughts, and layoffs.

I can't tell you what peace of mind it has brought us while watching our 401Ks shrink and knowing that layoffs are around the corner at our companies. 

ya and when the inverted curve is being normalized, say 30y is higher than 2y then that's the sign that recession and stock market crash is always happening hahaha ;-) it's very counter intuitive, we are in similar time to where bear stearns being wiped out in 2008thing is , we are at the longest inverted curve ever for the last 30 years so chance are actually higher, but since everyone is waiting for that, it may happen (or not) lolone thing for sure is we have more layoffs in 2024 and that would impact physiologically speaking how investor put their money moving forward.

Jason Schenker, president of Austin-based Prestige Economics, said, “I don't want to discount the individual pain of layoffs, but on net we are still adding jobs [in Austin].

They could then lay off a huge segment of the government that would become unnecessary.

We don't know how many sectors are going to be hit hard (hospitals are laying healthcare workers off) and if you are relying on another job's income to cover your issues (like when the place doesn't have a tenant, when you underestimate costs, when someone trashes your place, you have a large dollar repair that is needed, you have to hire an attorney for an eviction or a lawsuit) instead of a healthy amount of cash or liquid assets; that could really rock your finances when a lay-off happens at the same time an expected one-time hit comes (those things above happen - and never at a good time).I wouldn't take on debt for additional real estate investment unless you had at least 6 months of your monthly expenses (all those debt payments) in the bank and don't touch it. 

this is the first time in history the Fed is losing money , they had to layoff people and if they are bank, the Fed is already filing bankruptcy.having said that, the fed created condition that they want everyone to go bankrupt by their own decision loland that's a fact given reality today, so not a forecasting lol

Layoffs were flat in December at 1%.