The economy is a lot of different things to a lot of different people. For some people it is nothing but a series of ever worsening hardships which make life into a veritable nightmare of lost jobs, strained relationships and houses which become too much of a financial burden to bear despite being beloved family homes. For other people, the economy is little more than a sort of petri dish in which people (as if all people can simply be reduced into congruent units) go about their daily business, buy this or that, and operate under silly assumptions such as that the human race is in some way rational and thoughtful. We are not, we never really have been in a lot of ways, and we probably never will be. Some other people see the economy as the movement of wealth all around the world, all day and all night long.
A lot of people see an investment as something that you have to do in regard to someone else. While you always have the option of investing in stocks, bonds, lending to other people or allowing tenants to stay in a property that you own (a decent sampling of the many kinds of investments that there are out there), there is another kind of investment that most people never even think about- the investment in their own economy. Now, you have a myriad number of options available to you in this regard. You can plot out a number of ways that you can invest in yourself, based on a wide variety of factors.
Do you want to learn some new skill that will make you a better worker, or that might even open up an entirely new opportunity for you to join a new career field? Do you want to save more money, and have a stronger cushion of cash backing you up when something bad happens that you didn’t see coming? Do you want to purchase traditional investments for your own benefit? You need to remember that every investment you make in anything is an investment in yourself.