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Aug 2024
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Friday Flight - Instant E-Bikes, Sputter...

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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: cutting a car from your life, instant e-bikes, driving something durable, bank fee baloney, rate cut predictions, down payment assistance, wasteful wrinkle creams, unlocked cell phones, community college considerations, higher education value proposition, and the ascent of Aldi.

 

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