Friday Flight - Forgiveness Reality, Expensive Offspring, & DIY Coffins #558

Time for our Friday Flight! These episodes are a sampling of the week’s financial news and the impact on your personal finances. There are a lot of headlines out there, but we distill it 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 cover some relevant and helpful stories like: Student loan forgiveness has arrived, forgiveness tax implications, student loan payment caps, streaming viewership and prices continue to rise, unlimited movies are back, expensive offspring, wasting your library money, affordable hearing aids on the way, DIY coffins to save big, and props to one of our favorite outdoor recreational activities.

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