Time for our Friday Flight! These episodes are a sampling of the week’s financial news and the impact on your personal finances. There are a lot of headlines out there, but we distill it down to specific takeaways that will allow you to kick off the weekend informed and help you to continue to make smart money moves. In this episode we cover some relevant and helpful stories like: signing up to be a squid game contestant, why it’s good news to officially enter a bear market, auto-enrolling leading to financial independence, the simple path to wealth, the end of millennial subsidies, a Bitcoin academy in public housing, high earners living paycheck to paycheck, more medical bill price transparency, & finding drug money.

Additional links:

• Red light green light – Squid Games x HTM… What more could you want?!
• Bear market – To get all nerdy and technical, listen back to episode 473 where we laid out a bunch of different terms and highlighted the differences between a correction, bear market, and a crash. Here’s also a great post on what to do when the stock market crashes.
• Investing – And of course we touched on investing during this episode- listen back to how we invest our money with brokerage houses like Fidelity, M1 Finance, and Vanguard. Perfect for automating your wealth building.

• Credit Card Tool – Looking for the right credit card for you? Then check out our new credit card tool that’ll help you to easily filter through all the cards based on your preferred airline, whether or not they have an annual fee, or simply by the cash back offer! Just toggle the sliders and you’ll know which card to consider.

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