Everyone Wants a Piece of You. Here's How to Stay Whole -- with Luke Burgis
#743: Everyone talks about a loneliness epidemic — but Luke Burgis argues the opposite problem is just as real: we now have so much easy, frictionless community that we never have to develop a solid s...
22 Aug 1h 7min
Q&A: I Reached Financial Independence Three Years Early … Now What?
#742: A listener hit her $1.4 million early-retirement goal three years ahead of schedule — and now she's stuck deciding whether paying off a low-interest mortgage is smart, or just fear in disguise. ...
18 Aug 1h 9min
You Can't Buy Back Your 20’s — with Jack Raines
#740: Jack Raines turned $6,000 into $400,000 trading blank-check stocks during the 2020–2021 bubble — and he says it was some of the least fun money he's ever made. Jack Raines is a writer and inv...
14 Aug 1h 20min
Q&A: Should We Retire in Our 40s With $4 Million and an 80% Stock Portfolio?
#740: Paula and Joe rarely butt heads — but a caller's side hustle, which pulled in $5,500 in a single day, sparked their most heated disagreement in months. This week's mailbag: a couple weighing ...
11 Aug 1h 11min
First Friday: We Lost 23,000 Jobs, Yet Somehow Unemployment is Down?!?!
#739: The U.S. just lost 23,000 jobs — and unemployment fell anyway. The numbers were strange enough that Paula broke a years-long, all-stocks habit and bought her first bond, ever. In this month's F...
7 Aug 56min
Hackers Waited 3 Months for This Couple's $1.2 Million Deal, with Dr. Eric Cole [GREATEST HITS]
#738: Hackers broke into a real estate closing company's servers and waited three months for the right deal — then intercepted a wire and stole $1.2 million from a couple who did everything right, rig...
4 Aug 1h 47min
She's Researched Money for 30 Years—and Never Seen It This Bad for Young People, with Beth Kobliner
#737: Beth Kobliner has covered personal finance for people in their 20s and 30s for over three decades — and she says this is the hardest she's ever seen it. One in four young people now believe that...
31 Jul 1h 14min
Q&A: Would You Spend $60,000 on a Wedding Knowing It Could Be $800,000 Someday?
#736: A bride wants to spend $60,000 on her wedding — money that could grow to $800,000 in 40 years if she invested it instead. This week, three very different listener questions all boil down to the ...
28 Jul 1h 11min
