How to Money13 Sep 2024

Friday Flight - Miserable Millionaires, More Shrinkflation, & Dumb Dorm Insurance #879

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: the new most affordable cell phone plan, holiday spending (with a plan), reprobate returns, 401k millionaires, miserable millionaires, specious savings, HELOC piggy banks, election spending sprees, more shrinkflation, dumb dorm insurance, and AirPod Pro hearing aids.

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