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slash setup welcome to the nerd wallet smart money podcast where we answer your money questions in 15 minutes or less.

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And I'm your other host, Liz Weston.

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In this special coronavirus episode of the Smart Money podcast, we're talking about some of the

financial issues surrounding the pandemic. Specifically, we've asked our fellow nerds Kim Palmer

and Sarah Rathner to talk about what we should know about

savings, budgeting, and travel in the coming months.

Let's start with Kim.

So, Kim, what are some of the important things people need to know right now?

So a lot of the questions we've been getting are around budgeting during these times,

how to prepare for emergencies, how to handle the current

emergency that you're in. And so one of the huge pieces of advice we always emphasize is that

this really underscores the importance of having an emergency fund. We talk a lot about this with

our content and we have a really helpful tool, the emergency fund calculator. It helps you come up with the number

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