Time for a Friday Flight- our 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: how the CFPB is following our lead, teens making bank, electricians making a SHOCKING amount (yep), Uber Carsharing paying out, car insurance continues to climb, crypto policing, the bull is back, rents are receding, leasing an EV could make sense, EV tax credits, & some legit free cell service.
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- Investing – And of course we touched on investing during this episode- listen back to how we invest our money with brokerages like Fidelity, M1 Finance, and Vanguard.
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