Friday Flight - Rent Reductions, Charity Parity, & Home Equity Sharing #1146
How to Money
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4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 41 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:
- Rent reductions
- Escrow shortages
- Home equity sharing
- EV fees
- Charity parity
- Prediction market bans
- Financial crunch impulse buys
- Everything’s a subscription
- Healthcare price hikes
- Rx drug deals
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | Welcome to How to Money. |
| 0:05.8 | I'm Joel. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm Matt. |
| 0:07.5 | Today we're talking rent reductions, charity, parody, and home equity sharing. |
| 0:35.7 | Okay. Charity Parity isn't even something, Joel, that you had a makeup. That's a real thing that we'll get to. |
| 0:54.1 | Julia Goulia from the wedding singer. Julia Gulia! Oh, man, I love it. You know what else I love? I love all of our listeners out there, man. Like, if you think about what it is that we get to do here day in, day out, the listeners that listen to you and I talk about, listen to us Badgeron about personal finance and whatever other sort of random things that we come across that we think are interesting and hopefully going to be able to provide some value for |
| 0:58.4 | people when it comes to their personal finances. That's always the goal. That's the goal, |
| 1:01.6 | but even still, I'm appreciative of all of our listeners out there for sticking with us. Yeah. |
| 1:06.7 | Oh, the How to Money Show. We should give a brief recommendation for a podcast episode that both you and I have been trying to get through. |
| 1:13.6 | It's very long. The Acquired's new Vanguard episode. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Yeah. Well, maybe we'll link to it in the show notes and also in... Pod Talk. Yeah. This is the new segment of the show where we talk about other podcasts. That's right. I'll go out. |
| 1:25.1 | I guess. |
| 1:25.3 | You should check out. |
| 1:26.1 | Well, normally... |
| 1:26.7 | In Aquarius, |
| 1:27.1 | really good, by the way. |
| 1:28.4 | They release, I think, |
| 1:29.2 | eight or ten episodes a year because they're so long. one of the show where we talk about other podcasts. That's right. Other podcasts, you should look to check out. Well, normally, I mean... Aquarians really good, by the way. |
| 1:28.4 | They release, I think, eight or ten episodes a year because they're so long. But they're all beasts. I mean, anywhere from... I mean, Vanguard's... So the latest one was about Vanguard. So they dive into Jack Mogul's history and the history of the company, and it's just So good. |
| 1:41.4 | Remind me of our conversation with Robin Widdlesworth. |
| 1:43.8 | That's right. |
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