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Welcome to How to Money.

I'm Joel.

And I am Matt.

Today we're talking plunging prices, janky job markets and day trading Doris.

Okay. So is Doris your go-to old person name, Joel?

I would say it's usually Janet.

I just couldn't find an alliterative way to say that one,

but that's because of the letters didn't match up. Yeah, exactly. You do Janet because of, uh, I put a lot of thought in those titles, Matt. Janet because of, uh, Bluey. Yes. Because that's the go, the go-to grandma named there. Yeah. Uh, no, we're talking, yeah, boomers, folks who are retiring, who are day trading more.

But, dude, let's just kick things off, actually.

We've got a lot to get to today.

Let's talk about skimpflation, not shrinkflation, skimpflation, which is, and I'm not actually

sure if this is a term that a friend of the show, Nick Majuli coined, but he wrote about

it recently over on his blog.

So let me define it, which is essentially when a company chooses to go with inferior Nick Majuli coined, but he wrote about it recently over on his blog.

So let me define it, which is essentially when a company chooses to go with inferior products or ingredients that go into something that they are manufacturing all in an effort

to keep prices low, right?

So rather than raise prices on consumers or shrink the package that you're getting,

which is the aptly named shrinkflation. Instead, it's like, oh that you're getting, which is the

aptly named shrinkflation.

Instead, it's like, oh, you're still getting the same amount of stuff, but maybe

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