Recession or recession-ish? Bear markets or bear-ish?

Season 1 Episode 33

The true definition of a recession is technically two back-to back quarters of gross domestic product contraction. In our last episode, we settled on “recession-ish” because, while there was a contraction of the economy, other inputs, like jobs numbers, are still strong. Jean Chatzky and Soledad O’Brien are joined by William Lee, chief economist with the Milken Institute, to discuss what’s really going on and how a white-collar recession could differ from a blue-collar recession. And it’s that time of year when parents are sending their kids off to college, maybe for the first time. Erin Smith, director of estate planning at Edelman Financial Engines, walks Jean and Soledad through what you shouldn’t forget to send with your kids to college.

 

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Jean Chatzky

 

Meet the Host: Jean Chatzky

Jean Chatzky came to personal finance not as an economist or a financial planner but as a journalist who dug into the topic of money to get her own money in order as well as to earn a paycheck. She has the innate ability to take the complicated world of money and explain it in ways we can all understand. And this has never been more important than now because we all have more responsibility for our financial lives than any generation that came before us. Aside from hosting Everyday Wealth™, Jean is the CEO of HerMoney.com and host of the podcast HerMoney with Jean Chatzky. The financial editor of NBC's TODAY show for 25 years and the financial ambassador for AARP, she appears frequently on CNN and MSNBC and was a recurring guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show. She is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author.