Friday Flight - Federal Layoffs, Renting Roosters, & VOO FTW! #948

How to Money

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Business, Investing, Education

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🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 40 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: Joel’s portable pop up sauna, cooling housing market, horrible HOAs, federal layoffs, financial resiliency with a Bare Bones Budget, affordable iPhones, the cheapest cell coverage, renting roosters, forsaking fast food, craft beer tariffs, investing to overcome inflation, 401k retirees, and VOO FTW!

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