Help with Economy`

[BattlemasterMack]

I keep struggling to maintain a good economy towards the end of the first time, right around the time Monica and Ciara want to create the legislation for women rights. I normally do this as far as the economy is concerned. I reduce the budge to have a surplus or even budget. I then took the new trade deal with angolia, no deal with wehlen. I invest in new rail system, underhall as the construction, reduce all taxes. Lespia trade deal as well. What am I doing wrong to have my economy collapse late. For the next project I have been building up Morna port. I do not know what is necessary to maintain a good economy throughout the game.

[SuperBearNut]

Check the economy guide, it might help you.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2484945764

[noelwym]

The most important thing you must remember is that while it's okay to have a budget in the red, make sure it never goes down to -3. Once it does, everything starts going to heck. Same goes for public order. It doesn't matter if you have the most developed country in the world when your populace is rioting. To that end, you don't have to pursue every project offered to you. Skipping the mega-infrastructure projects early on is not a death sentence. Balance the budget and public opinion first before investing.

[Sopbucket]

One of the mistakes I made in my first game was triggering a debt crisis by going to -4 budget while my economy was yellow. This happened right after passing the women's rights bill, so maybe you're seeing something similar?

Usually there is a balancing act between the economy and the budget, you have to sacrifice one to improve the other, but a debt crisis is just bad all around. My response then was to pass all the consumption tax bills later in the game to get the budget back to normal, but that also hurt the economy and probably cancelled out the gains I was getting from earlier investments. Which is why it stayed bad.

You didn't mention regional investments, I think overall you do want to see the local economies improve as well. And there is at least one area of the government for which increase funding gets you your money back and then some, if you don't know already. Also, if you're going with Underhall, you might not want to pass the Workers Rights Bill, I think it affects them more than the other options.