Friday Flight – Recycled Rags, Slow Shipping, & Sayonara Spirit (or not...) #1137
How to Money
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🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Time for a Friday Flight- our little sampling of the week’s best 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:
- Bad bunnies (cost money)
- Negative car equity
- A car loan opportunity cost breakdown
- VOO the GOAT
- Flipping fleece jackets
- Recycled rags
- Slow shippers saving
- Spending more to live longer
- Outliving your money
- Babies or bougie
- EV sales are up
- Sayonara Spirit (or not… Spirit 2.0 -> LetsBuySpiritAir.com)
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