Welcome to PSA Thursday. This is a weekly bonus segment of the Affordable Care Podcast

in which we talk about how to handle your money, your work, and your life during a pandemic.

How can you come out of this stronger than when you went into it?

That's the question we are going to address today. My name is Paula Pant. I'm the host

of the Affordable Care Podcast and to kick off today's episode, I'd like to play for

you a question that comes from a member of our community and that many of you might be

able to relate to. Here it is.

Hi Paula. I have a question for you about how to best position myself in the changing

economy. So a little bit about my situation. I graduated from college in 2010, which as

well known is shortly after our big economic recession. It was a really hard time to enter

the working world. I felt like my focus was on getting a job. And even though I could

see that there were great incentives for buying a house at that time, I just wasn't

in a position to take advantage of any of them. And so my personal career has grown along

with the economy. Even though now I have a stable job and income and savings, the cost

of things is significantly higher. So I look at the houses that I would like to buy and

they all seem pretty much more than I feel comfortable paying for. And so I know that

I've had a talk with friends at different times and we're like, man, wouldn't it be

great if the economy just had like a little bit of a dip. Then we could take some of this

money that we've been saving and working hard for and putting it into investments that

yield decent rates of return. It seems like this is the time. It's happening. And I just

want to make sure that I'm making wise choices and doing things as best as I can to, I guess,

optimize as things are a little chaotic and unpredictable. Do you have any thoughts

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