The 'money ladies' financial guide for 2025
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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On Point’s 'money ladies' Michelle Singletary and Rana Foroohar are back to start 2025 with frank talk about the macro and micro of the American economy in a new year, and under a new presidential administration.
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| 0:46.4 | This is on point, alive and kicking at the start of 2025. |
| 0:51.3 | Happy New Year, everybody. |
| 0:52.8 | I'm Megyn Chakrabardi. |
| 0:54.0 | And happy new year to our money |
| 0:56.3 | ladies, Michelle Singletary and Rana Faroo-Harr. Hey there, ladies. Hi. Hi. Happy me. Happy New Year to |
| 1:04.6 | both of you. Before we get into the nitty-gritty of the economy, what I really want to know is, |
| 1:10.2 | how was your holidays, |
| 1:11.4 | Rana? Well, it was good. You know, I had just, you know, hordes of family. We staggered them, |
| 1:19.3 | which was good. I did a lot of cooking. And we had a white Christmas in New York, which was lovely. |
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