Friday Flight - Auto-IRAs, Travel Tuesday, & Sloppy Seconds #909
How to Money
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🗓️ 22 November 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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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: car stereo hacks, auto IRAs, abysmal hedge fund returns, Travel Tuesday, unlimited vacation clubs, gave up the Spirit, skiplagging to save, sports betting problems, no thanks Tropicana, retail return hassle, deferred interest on store cards, and the rise of second hand gifting.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's up? This is Ramses Job. And I go by the name, Q Ward. And we'd like you to join us each week for our show Civic Cipher. That's right. We discuss social issues, especially those that affect black and brown people, but in a way that informs and empowers all people. We discuss everything from prejudice to politics to police violence, and we try to give you the tools to create positive change in your home, workplace, and social circle. |
| 0:20.9 | We're going to learn how to become better allies to each other. |
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| 0:28.2 | wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:30.2 | Welcome to How to Money. |
| 0:31.7 | I'm Joel. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm Matt. |
| 0:33.1 | And today we're talking about auto IRAs, travel Tuesday, and sloppy seconds. |
| 1:00.6 | Not auto IRAs, as in car or truck IRAs. |
| 1:03.8 | It's like automatic for the people, Joel. |
| 1:10.2 | This is, in fact, our Friday flight, and we're going to hit all the most important headlines that we think pertain to your personal finances. |
| 1:13.4 | You are an REM fan, right? That was a name of one of their albums, automatic for the people. |
| 1:14.6 | Well, you know where that came from. |
| 1:16.6 | From your college town of Athens, Georgia. |
| 1:19.2 | Yeah, we were D's the meeting three. |
| 1:20.2 | Is it still around? |
| 1:23.4 | I actually, I haven't been back to Athens in years. |
| 1:30.3 | And so I personally can't speak from experience as to whether or not's still there, but it was a lot of spot back in the day, especially for someone like me. |
| 1:31.1 | I wasn't on the meal plan. |
| 1:32.0 | I don't think I ever went there. |
| 1:33.3 | Oh, you would have loved it. |
| 1:39.7 | You would have loved, I mean, just like the combination of Southern food mixed with music and culture and, oh, man. |
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