It’s time for a Friday Flight! These episodes are all about 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: Salesforce predicting we’ll pay 20% more on holiday spending, inflation impacting dollar stores, our Black Friday predictions, more scammers on Facebook Marketplace, the cure for high gas prices, scraping by on just $500k, Robinhood on college campuses, & stop paying for your credit score!

Additional links:

• At the beginning of the episode we talked about the Amazon series LulaRich. And it so happens that we have an entire episode on the broken promises of MLMs!
• We’re going to remain suspicious of Robinhood as long as they don’t offer retirement accounts. We would rather see you go with companies like Fidelity, Vanguard, and M1 Finance.
• Aside from virtually any of our credit card main dashboards, CreditScoreCard.com and Credit Karma are our favorite places to get an updated credit score. Also don’t forget that you can get a free credit report from the three bureaus every single week until April 2022. But remember to only go to AnnualCreditReport.com

• 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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