Friday Flight - Pre-K For Pay, Helicopter Savers, & Politics Shmoliticks #1029
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🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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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: job skill certificates that don’t pay, pre-K for pay, death of the one page resume, debit card spending growth, BNPL saying the quiet part out loud, helicopter savers, politics shmoliticks AKA partisan politics (makes you) poor, working past retirement age, & cookie cutter financial advisors.
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| 0:36.7 | I am Matt. Today we're talking pre-K for pay, helicopter savers, and politics-smoletics. Thanks. Politics. |
| 1:03.6 | You know what I would have called that one? |
| 1:05.4 | Partisan politics makes you poor. |
| 1:07.5 | The PPP. |
| 1:08.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.8 | What happened to the, you're doing a little bit of alliteration. I'm moving away. I just thought of that. Because of all the jabs you've tossed over the years my way. No, I was just reading some Roll Dahl with my buddy, my little guy, or the whole family. And gosh, what, Miss Trenchbowl from Matilda. uh... role doll does a good bit of alliteration, too, and I wonder, and I know you're a big fan, and I wonder if that's where you get it. I think the one I... Potentially. I think the one I most recently remember was, I think they called her a formidable female. That character that she plays in that book. I think if there was a Mount Rushmore of children's book authors. Oh, yeah, he's up there. Him and JK are up there. I don't know who else I put up there, but those two come to mind instantly. Like, J.K. Simmons, I haven't read any of his books. No, different one. Well, instead of some banter dude, let's just jump right into it. Let's talk about getting a job, buddy. Some people assume that more education is always going to be a good thing, that it's going to lead to better job opportunities. It's going to lead to better pay. That's a lot of times why folks do it. It's like the more initials after my name, the more highly I'll be valued. I've got no what any of those initials mean, because I didn't take the course |
| 2:17.8 | that teaches me what all the initials mean. We all know the value of a college education, |
| 2:22.6 | of course, but it has also come into a bit more scrutiny as costs have risen steeply over the years, |
| 2:28.0 | and the value of certain degrees has certainly declined, but it is not just college. Job skill |
| 2:33.6 | certificates are, turns out they're a bit overrated to online courses, certificates, |
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