Our 2026 money predictions.

What's coming and how to prepare.

Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast, where you'll learn to save money,

embrace simplicity, and live a rich in your life.

Here are your host, Jen and Jill.

Hey, frugal friends. I'm Jen. I'm Jill.

And media companies don't succeed by reporting on what happened. They succeed by speculating

on what will happen because of what happened. So let's speculate, baby.

Let's do it. Let's just throw out random predictions and see what sticks. We're going to give you

five predictions that we have for what you can expect to see financially in 2026.

Granted, not just based off of our own ideas and thoughts, but some research.

But mostly our opinions and what we want to happen and what we think will admit a visceral

response from you when we say it.

Let us know in the comments.

If you agree, disagree, you've got the secret sauce to what's actually going to happen.

Fight us in the comments.

Yeah.

And call us names, but like not bad names, just like names.

Whatever you interpret that as.

All right.

For our first spicy, hot take prediction.

Start hoarding people because a recession is coming. Eventually, probably at a date beyond 2026.

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