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May 2024
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Friday Flight - FREE cell service, Phant...

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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: public property foraging, FREE cell service, delinquent payments on the rise, more Gen Z credit card debt, phantom debt, chargeback safety net, political investing, Nancy Pelosi index, international exposure, and the Social Security time bomb.

 

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