Friday Flight - Awful AI Advice, Booming BNPL, & Frittering on Fitness #933

How to Money

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Business, Investing, Education

4.5 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

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: vetted LA wildfire charities, awful AI advice, booming BNPL, finding happiness in all the wrong ways, spending to please others, crack cocaine of the stock market, sports gambling, unserious CFPB, Skechers kicking butt, the rise of store brands, and frittering away on fitness.

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