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Banks go bankrupt, stock exchanges fall, and people lose their homes and jobs. There are many indirect effects that can make your life hard: inflation, a volatile exchange rate, growth rates on loans, rising prices and so on.

Look what you can do to get better with the crisis:

1. Do not dramatize. Don’t panic. Periods of crisis are normal and occur cyclically at 5-7 years. Is it true that some crises are more powerful, but it is part of ordinary life and they it will be meet often in a capitalist economy.

2. Wait. Even if it seems a good time to speculate, either on stock exchange or in property, unless you are not a professional wait until is clear that market returns, to make an acquisition. Maybe you will not achieve maximum potential gain, but you don’t risk to lose money when you need more of them.

3. Don’t borrow to the limit. The advice goes for any period, but even more important in crisis. Make sure that real loans not exceed 50% of your income.

4. Do for yourself some saves. Even if it is a tough time, try at least to put some money aside. You can make a bank deposit: interest rates increase a lot when banks need cash.

5. Try to reduce your costs to a minimum. Black days are a good opportunity for you to evaluate. Make an “austerity budget” and keep to it for month by month, who knows how long the crisis will last.

6. Watch exchange rate. In the periods of turbulence it varies a lot. Try to keep your savings in different places, in different currencies and various investments. Regardless of the evolution course, you will minimize losses.

7. Be more efficient. Crises are a good time for natural selection. The best, skilled, involved, will maintain and strengthen the positions in companies or in the working fields. If you no longer justified by the salary is time to put yourself a lot of questions and become more competitive.

There is no tragedy if you have to work more in that period. You can concentrate on work and move more easily to the crisis.

Crises pass. The most important is that when everything goes well, to be sober and to secure with white money for the black days. Invariable and they will return sooner or later.