How Do You and Your Schmoopie Compare to the Average Couple?
Motley Fool Answers
The Motley Fool
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🗓️ 7 February 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
We’ll dig up some interesting stats and surveys that reveal how most couples deal with money in their relationship. How do you and you schmoopie compare? Get your pen ready because we’ll also answer your question about Bro’s favorite retirement calculators.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Motleyful Answers is brought to you by Audible. For a free audiobook with a 30-day free trial, go to audible.com slash fool. |
| 0:11.0 | This is Motleyful Answers. I'm Alison Southwick, and I'm joined as always by Robert Brokamp, personal finance expert here at the Motley Fool. Hi, bro. |
| 0:18.5 | Hi, Alison. In this week's episode, we're going to talk about you and your schmoopee and how you compare |
| 0:23.8 | to the average couple when it comes to managing your money. |
| 0:26.2 | We'll also answer your question about Bro's favorite retirement calculators and also, which |
| 0:30.3 | is his favorite child? |
| 0:31.9 | All that and more on this week's episode of Molly Fool Answers. |
| 0:36.3 | It's time for Answers Answers, and this week's question comes from Andrew on Twitter. |
| 0:41.3 | Yes, we are on Twitter at Answers Podcast. |
| 0:44.3 | So Andrew writes, what are Robert's favorite retirement calculators? |
| 0:48.3 | Well, Andrew, you're probably asking because I often recommend that people use retirement |
| 0:53.3 | calculators to make sure that they're on track. |
| 0:54.9 | The thing is, no single retirement calculator does a perfect job. |
| 0:59.2 | So I recommend that you use a few and look for a consensus. |
| 1:03.0 | If most of them say that you're on track, you're probably okay. |
| 1:05.4 | If most of them say you're behind, take the hint. |
| 1:08.2 | So the first one I'm going to mention comes from a company called CalcXML. |
| 1:12.6 | They make all kinds of retirement calculators. |
| 1:15.5 | But the one I'm going to give you has a long URL and it's special because they let me kind |
| 1:19.7 | of customize it for them for our real retirement subscribers. |
| 1:23.4 | But you don't have to be a subscriber to use it. |
| 1:25.0 | So here's the URL. |
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