Live from FinCon!
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4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Recording at FinCon 2019, Chris Hill talks with Robert Farrington, expert in student loan debt and founder of TheCollegeInvestor.com. They discuss the scene at FinCon, how Robert got started investing, the rise of student loan debt in America and solutions that people can take advantage of. Plus, as a native of San Diego Robert offers a few recommendations for anyone visiting “America’s Finest City”. (Big thanks to NEFE, the National Endowment for Financial Education for sponsoring live podcasting at FinCon19!)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, September 5th. |
| 0:03.7 | Welcome to Mark Foolery. |
| 0:05.3 | I'm Chris Hill. |
| 0:06.5 | And as you can probably tell from the ambient noise, |
| 0:08.2 | not in the studio at Fool Global Headquarters. |
| 0:10.9 | I am at FinCon 2019 at the Washington Hilton in |
| 0:16.1 | Washington DC and I am joined by Robert Farrington expert in student loan debt |
| 0:21.2 | founder of the College Investor.com which by the way debt founder of the college investor |
| 0:23.0 | dot com which by the way is one of the best resources for helping |
| 0:26.2 | millennials get out of student loan debt so that they can focus on building |
| 0:31.1 | wealth for the future. |
| 0:32.7 | Robert, it is good to finally meet you. |
| 0:34.4 | I've been reading your stuff for years. |
| 0:36.0 | It is good to finally meet you. |
| 0:36.9 | Thank you so much. |
| 0:37.8 | I'm excited to meet you in person as well. |
| 0:40.0 | And I just love FinCon. |
| 0:41.2 | So this is just one of my favorite events of the whole year. |
| 0:43.2 | So let's start with that because you've been a bunch of times. |
| 0:45.9 | This is my first time at FinCon. |
| 0:48.6 | How do you describe FinCon to people? |
| 0:50.7 | Because I'll tell you how I've described it, but you first tell me when you tell people, oh yeah, I'm going |
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