Friday Flight - Allbirds AI Audacity, 529 Flexibility, & Horrific HELOCs #1131

About this episode

This episode covers the week's best financial news and its implications for personal finances.

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: $23 apples Allbirds AI audacity Returns that are too good to be true One more year syndrome ALTs in 401ks Boycotting college savings 529 flexibility Horrible HELOCs Preparing for property taxes increases (check out our review of Ownwell to automatically save) Gen Z meets credit cards WSJ finally understanding the ‘craft beer equivalent’ BNPL at Coachella The annoyance economy   Want more How To Money in your life? Here are some additional ways to get ahead with your personal finances: Credit card perks: Check out our favorite credit cards that we use to maximize rewards and optimize our spending. Other money nerds: Find a thriving community of fellow money nerds by joining the HTM Facebook group! Newsletter: Sign up for the weekly HTM newsletter . It’s fun, free, & practical. Money…

Topics covered

• financial news
• personal finance
• college savings
• credit cards
• property taxes
• investing

Keywords

• Allbirds AI
• 529 flexibility
• HELOCs
• credit cards
• property taxes
• financial news

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Allbirds, WSJ, Ownwell, HowToMoney.com

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