Friday Flight - Dirt Cheap Groceries, Worthless Warranties, & Paused Payments? #555
How to Money
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4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Time for our Friday Flight! These episodes are a sampling of the week’s financial news and the impact on your personal finances. There are a lot of headlines out there, but we distill it down to specific takeaways that will allow you to kick off the weekend informed and help you to get ahead during these trying times. In this episode we cover some relevant and helpful stories like: wearing used workout clothes, inflation resistant restaurants, dirt cheap groceries, trading down to save more, potentially paused payments, student loans impacting your golden years, happy birthday Social Security, worthless warranties, college student safeguards, TDF allowing you to DIY it within your 401k, actively managed funds kinda coming out ahead, specific EVs that get the new tax credit, & a sweet signup bonus on one of our favorite credit cards.
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| 0:00.0 | The world of chocolate has been turned upside down. |
| 0:02.4 | A very unusual situation. |
| 0:04.3 | You saw the stacks of cash in her office. |
| 0:05.9 | Chocolate comes from the cacountry, and recently, |
| 0:08.0 | Variety's picao fought to have been lost centuries ago |
| 0:10.6 | where we discovered in the Amazon. |
| 0:12.1 | There used to be no chocolate on Earth like this. |
| 0:14.8 | Now some chocolate makers are racing deep into the jungle |
| 0:18.0 | to find the next game-changing chocolate, and I'm coming along. |
| 0:21.4 | Okay, that was a very large crack it up. |
| 0:26.0 | Listen to obsessions while chocolate. |
| 0:28.1 | On the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:35.9 | Hi, I'm Ophira Eisenberg. |
| 0:37.5 | I'm a comedian and a parent. |
| 0:40.5 | The absurdity of telling jokes late at night, |
| 0:44.1 | and then waking up early with a small child in the morning. |
| 0:48.0 | I have a new podcast called Parenting is a joke. |
| 0:51.1 | I'll talk to other funny people who are also parents. |
| 0:54.4 | Will we be laughing? |
| 0:55.8 | Will we be crying? |
| 0:57.6 | Find out by listening to Parenting is a joke. |
| 1:00.2 | On the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, |
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