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How Marriage Legally Changes Your Financial Rights Feb 28, 2024

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Most of our listeners probably know they should be involved in the ~marital finances.~ But very few people, it seems, understand how signing a marriage contract legally changes their financial rights (I know I didn't back when I got married!).
Whether you’re single and considering marriage one day, already happily married, or experiencing divorce, this episode is a must-listen. Content warning: This episode includes stories of intimate partner violence as well as financial abuse.
This is not financial or legal advice—please do your own due diligence, as laws vary by state.
Transcripts, show notes, production credits, and more can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/marriage-financial-rights.
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Rich Girl Roundup: Is the 15-Year Mortgage Dead? (And Is It Even Worth Doing?) Feb 26, 2024

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Rich Guy Gavin asks, "Is the 15-year mortgage worth it?" Plus, given how few people can afford them nowadays, Katie and Henah chat through if the 15-year mortgage is dead. We run the numbers, the factors to consider, and some workarounds to make the 30-year mortgage more appealing.
Welcome back to #RichGirlRoundup, Money with Katie's weekly segment where Katie and MWK's Executive Producer Henah answer your burning money questions. Each month, we'll put out a call for questions on her Instagram (@moneywithkatie). New episodes every week.
Reminder: This is not financial advice; we are not certified financial professionals—please do your own due diligence.
Transcript, show resources, production credits, and more can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/rgr-15-year-mortgage.
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The Easiest Way to Build Wealth with JL Collins, the Godfather of Financial Independence Feb 14, 2024

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The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins is financial independence canon. The premise boils down to elegant simplicity: Spend 50% of your income and invest the other 50% in one specific index fund, VTSAX. We ask the Godfather of FI about it all—covering everything from his reliance on VTSAX and the American economy, to managing market crashes, to the debate over homeownership.
Reminder: This is not financial advice; please talk to a certified financial professional and do your own due diligence.
Transcripts, show notes, production credits, and more can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/simple-path-to-wealth-jl-collins
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Rich Girl Roundup: Do You Have Too Much Liquid Cash in Your Emergency Fund? Probably. Feb 12, 2024

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Rich Girl Liz H. wanted to know: "How do I know if I'm too 'liquid?'" Chances are, you probably do have too much in your emergency fund—Katie and Henah chat through mental blocks and reframes to consider, when you might want to save more, and what Katie personally keeps in her own accounts.
Reminder: This is not financial advice; we are not certified financial professionals—please do your own due diligence.
Welcome back to #RichGirlRoundup, Money with Katie's weekly segment where Katie and MWK's Executive Producer Henah answer your burning money questions. Each month, we'll put out a call for questions on her Instagram (@moneywithkatie). New episodes every week.
Transcript, show resources, production credits, and more can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/rgr-too-much-cash.
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Why Poverty Persists in One of the Richest Countries in the World Feb 07, 2024

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Low-wage work is more prevalent in the US than any other high-income nation—and we've essentially seen 50 years of stasis in anti-poverty efforts. After reading four different books about why the US has such a difficult time minimizing poverty despite having relative abundance, we deep dive into the main issues that keep the poor in place. We also talk about ways to solve for poverty, like readdressing policy, improving allocations for spending, and more.
Transcripts, show notes, production credits, and more can be found at https://moneywithkatie.com/poverty-in-the-us.
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Rich Girl Roundup: What an Heiress Giving Away $27M Says About Generational Wealth & Inequality Feb 05, 2024

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An Austrian heiress made headlines when she announced she would let 50 strangers decide what to do with $27M USD of her inheritance. Katie and Henah discuss the potential impact of this kind of social experiment, how the lack of inheritance and estate taxes disproportionately support inequality, and why "generational stability" might be worth striving for more than "generational wealth."
Welcome back to #RichGirlRoundup, Money with Katie's weekly segment where Katie and MWK's Executive Producer Henah answer your burning money questions. Each month, we'll put out a call for questions on her Instagram (@moneywithkatie). New episodes every week.
Transcript, show resources, production credits and more can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/austrian-heiress-experiment
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A Fraternity Crime Story: Power, Money, and a Multimillion-Dollar Scandal Jan 31, 2024

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The abuse of prescription drugs on college campuses has skyrocketed in the last 10 years—and by extension, so too has the intricate ecosystem of college-aged dealers and distribution networks. So today, we're covering a multimillion-dollar fraternity drug ring scandal at the College of Charleston with the investigative journalist, Max Marshall, who covered it in his book, Among the Bros. We talk about power, privilege, and the near-total lack of consequences in this story — and how it serves as a bit of an allegory for the real world.
Need a primer on the various names involved in this story?
Mikey Schmidt, the main drug plug for the fraternity with connections to cartels in Atlanta, and the contact for the fraternity's distribution networks and runners
Rob Liljeberg, a former Eagle Scout who went on to become the president of the Kappa Alpha fraternity
Zach Kligman, also known as the "Charleston Kingpin," who would help traffic the drugs into Charleston
Patrick Moffly, a socialite, beloved party boy, and son of a big-time real estate developer and a Congressional candidate. Moffly helped create and sell the drugs sold through the fraternity.
Transcripts, show notes, production credits, and more can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/fraternity-drug-ring.
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Rich Girl Roundtable (with a CPA): Business Writeoffs & Tax Hacks for the Fully & Partially Self-Employed Jan 29, 2024

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What can you write off from your side hustle? Should your business be an S Corp? What's the best retirement account for self-employed folks? We cover it all, once again with the help of CPA & CFP Tim Steffen of Baird Wealth.
Reminder: This is not financial advice; please do your own due diligence with a licensed professional.
Welcome back to #RichGirlRoundup, Money with Katie's weekly segment where Katie and MWK's Executive Producer Henah answer your burning money questions. Each month, we'll put out a call for questions on her Instagram (@moneywithkatie). New episodes every week.
Transcript, show resources, production credits and more can be found at https://moneywithkatie.com/business-writeoffs.
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A Look at Katie’s New Show About Entrepreneurship, BOSSY Jan 24, 2024

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Tune in to this episode of BOSSY, the other podcast I host with entrepreneur Tara Reed, of Apps Without Code. This is a show we started at the end of 2023 to expand our surface area beyond just personal finance to entrepreneurship and career-focused conversations—you can hear new episodes every Thursday.
This episode is our conversation about pivoting out of business slumps—aka, you've been trying something for awhile and it's just...not working. What do you do? What are your options? How do you get unstuck?
Listen to BOSSY wherever you get your podcasts or on YouTube.
Transcripts, show resources, production credits, and more can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/bossy-money-entrepreneurship.
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Buying a House? Lower Interest Rates May Not Be the Answer in 2024 Jan 17, 2024

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I’m going out on a limb today to say: No, I don't think “high interest rates” are the problem in today’s housing market.
The “high interest rate” might be a bit of a red herring. So today, we’ll talk about how the current situation stacks up to years past, the strange upsides of higher interest rates, and the decision to rent or buy in 2024.
Transcripts, show notes, production credits, and more can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/rent-buy-2024
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