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Feb 2025
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Friday Flight - Brainless Borrowing, DOG...

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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: renting the fancy clothes, lowest cost airports, the frequent flier switch, going abroad on a budget, secondary credit card benefits, referral bonus taxation, (not so) unlimited PTO, saving the most with health sharing, ghost tax preparers, DIY vs tax pros, brainless borrowing, updated Money Gear #1, and DOGE dividends.

 

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