Time for a Friday Flight- our little sampling of the week’s best 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:

• Deceptive dollar stores
• When it pays to go cheap
• Warrior dividends
• Less great target date funds
• Moderate millionaires
• The wealth effect
• Underperforming financial advisors
• Time to update those beneficiaries
• Wanna be real estate moguls
• Frustrated flippers
• Don’t gamble
• Robinhood pushing prop bets
• Betting your credit card balance
• Debit card cashback

 

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