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Jan 2025
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Friday Flight - Trump 2.0, Ghost Jobs, &...

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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: NO to the cash-out refi, Trump 2.0 and your money, Melania coin, feds returning to the office, insufficient savings, ghost jobs, WFH job scammers, TOYS are a scam, why the rise of touchscreen kiosks, everyone is tipping less, ballooning escrow accounts, & apartment rents on the decline.

 

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