5 Scary Financial Decisions That Will Make You Broke!

Managing finances doesn’t have to be scary – unless you make these 5 financial decisions. In honor Halloween, we’re telling you scary tales of financial catastrophe AND how you can avoid them!

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• What tools you need to protect yourself from risk and disaster
• How to keep debt from ruining your life
• Smart financial principals that will keep your finances from going off the rails
• and more!

Research and resources from today’s episode:

• The Money Guy Resources Page (FREE downloads!)
• 58% of Americans Have Less Than $1,000 in Savings, Survey Finds (Yahoo! Finance)
• Dow Jones Industrial Average (Quandl)
• Dow Jones Industrial Average (Investing.com)
• Average credit card interest rates: Week of Oct. 23, 2019 (CreditCards.com)
• Should I get a car loan that’s longer than five years? (Credit Karma)
• The Seven-Year Auto Loan: America’s Middle Class Can’t Afford Its Cars (WSJ)
• That Enron feeling: WorldCom 401(k) plan down by $775 million (Pensions & Investments)
• Employees’ Retirement Plan Is a Victim as Enron Tumbles (NYT)
• Many Americans are underinsured, survey suggests (Policygenius)
• Disability statistics (Council for Disability Awareness)
• Credit card insurance: don’t believe the hype (CreditCards.com)

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