It's Brian Preston, the money guy, restoring order to your financial chaos, retirement,

investing, taxes.

You've got financial questions, he's got financial answers.

It's Brian Preston, the money guy.

So here's an important question.

Are debit cards more dangerous than credit cards?

Right, I'm excited to talk about this because I was surprised, right?

We live in our own little worlds where we kind of get blinded by our own biases and perhaps

we don't recognize that other people out there have different thoughts, different preferences,

different ideas.

When you start asking people this question, you can really see how unique and different

folks are.

So, one of the things that we want to address is we've kind of done some investigating

around this is which one's better, which one should I use, which one's more dangerous,

which one's more helpful, and we're going to hopefully dive into a little bit of that

today.

Let's give them a little context first.

Because we, Ruby had to dig hard on this to figure out what was the actual debit card

used versus credit card use.

And the best stat we could find was actually from Nerdwallet.

We found that 44% actually said that they used their debit card primarily for purchases

for everyday purchases.

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