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Sky High Inflation

Rising interest rates, a maybe recession?

Oh, it's just the second financial crisis millennial women are facing in their lifetime.

Everything's fine.

Spoiler

Everything was not fine.

At the Scheme, our mission is to help women live their smartest lives.

And in this special miniseries, we're talking about living our smartest and best financial lives.

Because in this economy, we can't afford not to.

Welcome to In This Economy, a special miniseries from the Scheme This team.

Over the course of three episodes, we're going to give you the tools you need to navigate what's

going on right now, from budgeting in this economy, investing in this economy, and staying sane

in this economy. Our experts will be giving you their best money tips and tricks, and will help you

make the best decisions for your wallet. Thanks for listening to In This Economy, and catch

the next episode in your feed on Monday. All right, let's get into it.

For our first episode, we're talking about budgeting. Because thanks to the elephant in the room,

inflation, our budgets have already had to adjust a ton this year. Not to mention, inflation is

just one of those things that feels really out of our control. Like, no, I am not responsible for

the price of eggs or an iPhone. And so far, a lot of the budgeting for inflation advice has been

around small tactics, like comparison shopping at the grocery store, or finally Venmo charging

your sister for your family's Spotify account. And we'll say this, getting stricter about those

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