Friday Flight - Travel Trade-offs, Memecoin Madness, & Housing Inventory Increases #921

How to Money

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🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 42 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: Costco Instacart HACK, stockpiling before the tariffs, travel trade-offs, working from HELM, international stock exposure, fake T-Mobile fees, axed overdraft fees, memecoin madness, homebuyer closing scams, Fidelity insights, positive downstream effects of homeownership, & housing inventory spikes.

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1:28.2	Welcome to How to Money.
1:29.7	I'm Joel.
1:30.3	I'm Matt.
1:31.1	And today we're talking about travel tradeoffs, meme coin madness, and housing inventory increases.
1:38.8	Music Welcome to the How to Money Friday Flight, where we take the week's top headlines, specifically how they pertain
2:02.0	to your personal finances. And we tell you what you should be doing with that knowledge.
2:06.3	We're providing a prescription, Joel, for all the listeners out there to know whether they should...
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