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Motley Fool Answers
The Motley Fool
4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2017
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
What’s on the mind of the kids these days? Turns out, probably the same stuff as you. We’ll answer questions submitted by The Motley Fool’s summer interns such as: How to prioritize saving for a retirement versus a house. Are high fee credit cards worth it? And what’s the best strategy around tax-loss harvesting?
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| 0:18.6 | This is Motley Fool Answers. I'm Alison Southwick and I'm joined Marketmortgage.com slash fool. |
| 0:26.2 | This is Motley Fool Answers. I'm Alison Southwick, and I'm joined as always by Robert Brokamp, |
| 0:28.0 | personal finance expert here at the Motley Fool. |
| 0:29.1 | Hi, Allison. |
| 0:33.9 | Hi. And we also have in the studio today, Sean Gates, planner with Motley Fool asset management, a sister company of the Motley Fool. |
| 0:37.3 | Nice. |
| 0:38.3 | And you're back in the studio today to help us answer some more questions. |
| 0:41.3 | Glad to be here. |
| 0:42.3 | It's summer, which means interns have descended upon Motley Fool H.Q. |
| 0:47.3 | And we thought it would be a great opportunity to learn more about what money issues are weighing on the minds of 20-something-year-olds. |
| 0:57.2 | Turns out the kids have questions that you probably have, too. |
| 1:00.0 | Questions like, is it better to save for a house or retirement? |
| 1:04.4 | How soon should you start paying off student loans and our high-reward credit cards worth the fee? |
| 1:07.3 | All that and more on this week's episode of Motley Fool answers. |
| 1:14.1 | Like I said, it's summer, which means that there are a lot of 20-something-year-olds running around the Motley Fool, more than usual, and maybe even younger than 20-year-old. |
| 1:17.2 | I don't even know how old these kids are. |
| 1:18.6 | They're in college, so some of them could be 18, 19? Who knows? |
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