Biggest Money Mistakes People Make, and the Rise of the Micro-Influencer

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TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee

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🗓️ 13 November 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Youngme Moon , Felix Oberholzer-Gee , and Mihir Desai discuss the biggest money mistakes people make when managing their personal finances. They also discuss the rise of the social media “micro-influencer.”

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0:47.3	Felix and me here. Hey guys how are you? It's freezing outside and both of you guys are in
0:51.8	your sweaters. It's
0:55.0	always hardest in the fall.
0:56.0	Somehow in January I feel if it's like minus 8,000
1:00.0	I've gotten used to a cool way.
1:02.0	The fall when it first is cooler. It's just it's just cruel.
1:06.8	I love it. Oh I love the novelty of it though and the first crisp days are like spectacular.
1:11.6	They get your blood pumping. I know and you start to think
1:13.8	about Thanksgiving. That's going to be great. Thanksgiving is one of those
1:16.0	great celebrations, lots of family and lots of food, which is good. I'm really
1:19.4	looking forward to it. Before we get going, the three of us were talking about the mail that we've been getting.
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