Friday Flight - Credit Crunch, MAGA Money, & Gas Gouging #987

How to Money

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Business, Investing, Education

4.5 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 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: flipping dishwashers, credit crunch, what a US downgrade means for us, $70k high school jobs, the Humble Dollar match, MAGA money, gas gouging, competition at the gas pump, rising home internet costs, newsletter overload, where gold and real estate stack up, & small businesses leading to stealthy wealthy.

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