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Podcast: The Investing for Beginners Podcast - Your Path to Financial Freedom
Episode: AAR33 - Times Are Changing: Here's How to Get Ahead
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In this episode of At Any Rate, Evan Raidt and Andrew Sather dig into the four big reasons it feels so much harder to get ahead financially in 2026: housing is way less affordable, wage growth has stalled, personal debt is at record highs, and savings rates have plummeted.