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#416: The Crypto Crash, the Housing Market, and Hot Takes on the Latest Economic Headlines, with Paula Pant

ByPaula Pant December 2, 2022September 22, 2026

Crypto is tanking. Household debt is climbing. Student loans are tangled up in the court system. And the house market…did what?!

Today’s bonus First Friday episode takes a look at the latest economic headlines, with analysis, commentary and hot takes.

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Episodes | Guest Episode | Real Estate | The Economy

#753: Why 60,000 New York Apartments Sit Empty in a Housing Crisis, with Kenny Burgos
ByJethro Ombao September 27, 2026

In New York City, a 24-unit apartment building is listed for sale at $1.3 million, which works out to about $54,000 per apartment. Kenny Burgos represents the owners of buildings like that one, and his advice is simple: don’t buy it. The reason comes down to rent stabilization. Kenny grew up in the Bronx, raised…

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Episodes | FIRE | Q&A Episode | Real Estate | The Economy

#752: Q&A: I’m Tired of Managing My Rental Property. Should I Sell It?
ByPaula Pant September 22, 2026September 22, 2026

“Sometimes you might make the ‘right’ decision for the wrong reason.” That’s what I told Nieves, a listener who’s deciding whether to sell rental property she bought back in 2021, a St. Louis duplex that’s gotten a lot harder to manage since she moved to Madrid for her MBA. Her tenants have started paying late….

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Episodes | Financial Psychology | Guest Episode | Personal Finance

#751: Why Self-Worth Predicts Your Income More Than Your SAT Score Does, with Marisa Franco
ByPaula Pant September 18, 2026September 22, 2026

Marisa Franco built her career studying friendship and belonging. Her latest research pulled her somewhere unexpected: the connection between self-worth and net worth. In her data, people with high self-worth and high SAT scores earned close to double the income of people with low SAT scores. People with low self-worth showed no such pattern —…

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Episodes | FIRE | Investing | Self-Improvement, Psychology and Mindset

#750: Your “Diversified” Portfolio Might Secretly Be One Big Bet on AI, with Alec Litowitz
ByPaula Pant September 15, 2026September 22, 2026

Your S&P 500 index fund looks diversified — but Alec Litowitz says its concentration in AI stocks makes it one giant bet in disguise. Alec Litowitz joined a hedge fund with $100 million in assets and six employees. He had never made a trade in his life. That fund was Citadel, in its earliest days,…

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Episodes | FIRE | Lifestyle | Self-Improvement, Psychology and Mindset

#749: How a Blind Man and his Guide Dog Survived Sept. 11 — and What His Mindset Can Teach Us, with Michael Hingson
ByPaula Pant September 14, 2026September 22, 2026

On September 11, 2001, Michael Hingson was on the 78th floor of the World Trade Center’s North Tower with his guide dog, Roselle, when the first plane hit. Over the next hour, they walked down 78 flights of stairs together, calm the entire way. Michael later wrote about that day in Thunder Dog, a New…

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Episodes | FIRE | Lifestyle | Personal Finance 101 | Q&A Episode | Retirement

#748: Q&A: My Dream Job Won’t Wait If I Take a Family Gap Year. Do I Quit Anyway?
ByPaula Pant September 9, 2026September 22, 2026

“So to me, this is not a money management question.” That’s what I told Jamie, a 42-year-old PA with $686,000 saved, right after she described her plan: quit the job she loves and take her husband and kids on a family gap year while they’re still young enough to remember it. She wasn’t asking if…

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