Friday Flight - Bad RAPs, Price Match Murder, & Premium Points Credit Cards #1020
How to Money
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🗓️ 8 August 2025
⏱️ 43 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: a 100 year old’s purchasing power, passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, boosting SALT deductions, waning EV tax credits, bad RAPs, student loan advice on TikTok, $80 popcorn buckets, Target price match murder, rising Amazon prices, premium points credit cards, and what to do instead!
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