personal finance
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Is ‘Interest-Free’ Credit Really Interest Free?
2There’s nothing like that gut-wrenching feeling you get when you lose a phone or spill coffee all over your laptop, and you’re all out of savings. If you’re in the market for a loan it’s tempting to accept the first offer you receive, especially when that ‘interest free’ deal seems perfect. However, you need to…
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How To Get Rich, With Personal Finance Expert Ramit Sethi
Ramit Sethi, author of I Will Teach You To Be Rich and professional financial smart person, joins us on The Upgrade this week to talk about how to reframe our approach to spending, the best ways to invest our savings, and how normal people can find a way to take a six-week honeymoon.
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What Bad Money Habits Did Your Parents Teach You?
In an ideal world, every chickadee leaves the nest at age 18 with a savings account and enough knowledge to pass a pop quiz about credit scores. But we all know that sometimes doesn’t happen.
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Beware ‘Alphabeticity Bias’ When Picking Investments
You already know that many of your financial decisions aren’t made rationally: Recency bias, sunk-cost fallacy and mental accounting all play major roles in how we spend, save and think about our money. But you also need to be aware of bias when you’re picking investments.