Questioning the 50/30/20 Budget and Company Stock

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast

NerdWallet Personal Finance

Business, Education, Investing, How To

4.2 • 665 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The 50/30/20 budget is a simple way to organize your finances. But as rent prices soar and inflation impacts everything from gas to groceries, does this budget still make sense? To start this episode, Sean and Liz discuss the merits — and limits — of the 50/30/20 budget. Then they answer a few listeners’ questions about navigating company stock. To send the Nerds your money questions, call or text the Nerd hotline at 901-730-6373 or email [email protected]. Timestamps: This Week in Your Money segment: 0:00 - 7:44 Money Question segment: 7:45 - 26:32 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.8	I hope you all had great Thanksgivings. Liz and I are off for the week, so please enjoy this episode from our archive. And before I go, one quick plug. For our special end of your episode, please send us your rose, thorn, and bud of 2022. Your rose is the best thing that happened to you this year. Your thorn is something that you struggled with.
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1:15.6	ISOs, NSOs, and RSUs. Companies offer their workers an alphabet soup of stock, and regardless
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1:26.4	Money podcast, where we answer your
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