where unemployment will rise, but so will the overall market for a variety of factors including inflation. I think there will be more sector variability, with housing and medicine continuing to lag, and tech and certain overseas investing doing ok. If you are long - say 10 years - cost averaging into real estate might be interesting. Home sales pre- to post-COVID have roughly fallen in half. Last time that happened was the early 80s and it took about 12-15 years to fully return. So, might be an opportunity there as well long-term.
Still though, may not be a bad idea to de-leverage heading into 2026 since it's an election year and who knows what will happen.