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Podcast: The Jesse Mecham Show
Episode: Ask Jesse: Is All Money Just Savings?
Description: A listener, Tom, writes into the show to express some confusion over what constitutes "savings" in a budget following the YNAB method. During a call with his bank to discuss refinancing, Tom was asked how much savings he had on hand, a question which dumbfounded him. Technically, everything in the budget is savings, he reasoned, since every dollar had been subjected to Rule One, and was sitting in categories to be spent sooner or later. So... is all money just savings in that case? Â Jesse offers a saying from one of the YNAB teachers, that a...