It’s time for a Friday Flight! These episodes are all about the week’s news and the effects of Covid-19 on your personal finances. There are a lot of headlines out there, but we are distilling it down to specific takeaways that will allow you to not just weather this health and financial crisis, but to come out on the other side even stronger. In this episode we cover some interesting and helpful stories like the uptick of biking in cities not known for biking, protecting your bike, traffic fatalities and how we perceive risk, streaming content shake-ups, avoiding the trap of becoming a payment buyer, misleading GDP numbers, increasing credit scores and free credit reports every week, 2021 IRS retirement contribution guidelines, and small dollar loans or emergency funds.
Additional links from this episode:
- On the note of protecting your bike, a basic U-lock is plenty for 99% of most people. That’s actually the exact lock I’ve used for over a decade and it has served me well.
- Here’s everything you need to know about emergency funds, and different ways you can build up yours!
- And if you’re interesting in learning about credit scores, this post covers how to boost your credit score and rebuild if it’s damaged.
- As T-Mobile looks to take over the world, why wouldn’t they get into streaming content?
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Best friends out!
