
← The Investing for Beginners Podcast - Your Path to Financial Freedom13 oct · 56 min
AAR71 - Are You a Financial Green Flag or Red Flag?
Evan and Andrew take the viral red-flag/green-flag dating game and turn it on your wallet. Eleven money habits get judged — streaming subscriptions, credit card debt, eating out, beat-up cars, family loans, car leases, prenups, paying cash, 5-star hotels, and splitting bills with a partner. Some verdicts are obvious. A few of them got surprisingly deep.
What You Will Learn
Why subscribing to every streaming service is a red flag — and the rotate-and-cancel fix
The brutal math on funding retirement while carrying credit card debt
The leftovers hack that effectively halves your eating-out bill
When a beat-up car on a $100K salary is a green flag (and when "car dandruff" flips it red)
Why leasing is usually a losing game — and the iPhone lease that made Evan snap
The right way to split bills when partners earn very different incomes (plus the app built for it)
Why "faithful in small things" predicts your entire financial life
Timestamps
00:00— Welcome to At Any Rate: how the game works
03:38 — Flag #1: Subscribes to every streaming service (RED)