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:

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50 year mortgages
Robinhood getting into the mortgage game
Cash for Christmas
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Flights not quite as delayed
Expense ratio transparency
Investment nudges by Vanguard
$2,000 tariff rebate checks
Fancy credit cards potentially no longer accepted
RIP Direct File
Avoiding all the scams
Voice authentication via code words

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