Category: Personal Finance
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The Financial Flipside Podcast, Episode 19: Housing Things
As of May 2019, the average price of a new house in the US was $377,200, a price that will buy you, on average, an apartment’s worth of space for every member of your household. Alongside expanding house sizes and the proliferation of luxury condos is a stark reality: the United States, like many…
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The Financial Flipside Podcast, Episode 14: Cant’ Knock the (Side) Hustle
According to a recent Banrkate.com survey, 4 in 10 Americans have side hustles, or jobs that they work in addition to their primary source of income. Another survey of 1,000 Americans from CreditLoan.com found that 15% of side hustlers want to start a business of their own. If the legions of breathless articles about side…
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The Financial Flipside Podcast, Episode 10: The One About Money
For relatively small bits of paper and metal, money carries a lot of weight. It is (supposedly) both the root of all evil and the key to happiness In our particular capitalist society, we both venerate and distrust people who have managed to acquire a lot of money. It is at once a source…
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The Financial Flipside Podcast, Episode 9: Cash Flow is King!
What is cash flow? Put simply, it’s the money (cash and cash-equivalents, so CDs, shares of equity, government bonds, bank accounts) coming into and going out of your business. It’s an easy enough concept to understand, but day-to-day cash flow management is the Achilles’ heel of many a small business. A study by US…
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The Financial Flipside Podcast, Episode 8: I Put That on My (Credit) Card, Part 2: Business Credit
After our tax reform detour in Episode 7, we’re back to talk a little more about credit. Specifically, we discuss business credit: how it differs from individual credit, some of the different types, and how and when to use it. If you’re concerned about balancing funding sources or wondering what the SBA actually does,…