Higher ed rankings czar Kaitlin Pitsker joins the show to discuss Kiplinger's annual college value rankings. Sandy and Ryan discuss tax holidays and other back-to-school shopping deals. Taxes for married couples and IPO stocks feature in a new edition of Financial Fact or Fiction.

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State sales tax holidays: https://www.taxadmin.org/2019-sales-tax-holiday; States with a marriage penalty: https://www.kiplinger.com/slideshow/taxes/T055-S001-states-with-marriage-penalty-in-tax-brackets/index.html; The college rankings: https://www.kiplinger.com/links/colleges; Ryan on 2019 IPOs: https://www.kiplinger.com/article/investing/T052-C000-S002-here-come-the-hot-ipos.html; In case you're interested in Slack's direct listing, Ryan wrote about Spotify's a couple years back: https://www.kiplinger.com/article/investing/T052-C000-S002-how-the-spotify-ipo-broke-the-rules.html