Time for a Friday Flight- our little sampling of the week’s financial news and what it means for your personal finances. There are a lot of headlines out there, but we boil them down to specific takeaways that will allow you to kick off the weekend informed and help you to get ahead with your money. In this episode we explain some relevant and helpful stories like: click to cancel, better business policies, longer loans, upside down autos, AI generated podcasts, Flyhomes, luxury goods inverted supply/demand, pricey lotto tickets, would you tattoo?, cloudy forecast for real estate in the sunshine state, prepaying principal, and higher heating bills.
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I’m not sure if it’s Matt or Joel, your voices are so similar, but the libertarian views are making it really hard to listen to. To believe that companies should be able to screw you over and make it incredibly difficult to cancel a service is just gross. I have been a faithful listener for years now, but it seems like the more money you guys make the further you get from caring about personal finance and more about companies having the right to take advantage of the uninformed. You even mentioned that you had an issue with a gym recently. Does that only matter because it’s you? The person who has a platform to call out this crap?
You guys have been one of my favorite podcasts for a long time, but you are really turning me away with your rhetoric lately.
Hey Justin. Thanks for your comment. Matt and I disagree on some things, including this recent FTC attempt to make canceling a service easier. I hate seeing companies make it nearly impossible to cancel a service after making it SO easy to sign up. We’ll keep your feedback in mind as we discuss potentially divisive topics like this on the show in the future!