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Podcast: The Investing for Beginners Podcast - Your Path to Financial Freedom
Episode: AAR24 - Credit Cards: Tool or Trap?
Description: You can download Evan’s free monthly budgeting spreadsheet here:https://einvestingforbeginners.com/budget/
In this episode of At Any Rate, Evan Raidt and Dave Ahern tackle one of the most misunderstood tools in personal finance: credit cards.
They open with real-life horror stories—from a $20,000 cash advance to chase a “hot stock tip” to a college student stacking cards to upgrade his truck—and use them to show how easy it is to slide into crippling debt.
Evan and Dave also walk through th...