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Jan 2025
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Friday Flight - Credit Score Supremacy, ...

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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: low cost insulation, best months to buy new and used cars, thousand dollar car payments, bougie extra bedrooms, what medical debt?, credit score supremacy, avoiding alts, risky business, points purgatory, credit card defaults, and gift card spillage.

 

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