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May 2024
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Friday Flight - Guilt-Tipping, FIRE Frea...

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Time for a Friday Flight- our little sampling of the week’s financial news and what it means for your personal finances. There are a lot of headlines out there, but we boil them down to specific takeaways that will allow you to kick off the weekend informed and help you to get ahead with your money. In this episode we explain some relevant and helpful stories like: social media birthday money solicitations, savers making bank, where to go to borrow, $100 real estate investors, new Vanguard fees, guilt-tipping, FIRE freaks, there’s no place like loan, what medical debt?, and $40k gym memberships.

 

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