PennyWise: Personal Finance & Travel Tips
Hosted by John Kiernan · Lee Enterprises
4.5from 8 ratings
- 140
- Episodes
- 87
- Transcribed
- 8
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
About PennyWise: Personal Finance & Travel Tips
PennyWise is a show about money, personal finance, investing and travel. The program features a variety of financial experts who can help save you money.
- Publisher
- Lee Enterprises
- Category
- business · news · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 25 Jan 2021
- Latest episode
- 3 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
87 of 140 episodes have a transcript.
3 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Fed Rate Hikes: Why You Should Care & What You Need to Do
19 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
High Credit Card Fees: When They’re Worth Paying & When to Stay Away
4 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Identity Theft Insurance & Cyber Insurance: What You Need to Know to Stay Safe
Inside a recent episode
Fed Rate Hikes: Why You Should Care & What You Need to Do
Published 3 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And so when you hear that the Fed is moving its interest rate or raising or cutting the federal funds rate, it's one of the things that it's doing is it's changing this interest rate that pays to banks. Gotcha. So how does that then that still might sound abstract to a lot of people? How does that affect them? Yes. So how does this then affect normal people? So every time a bank thinks about making a mortgage loan, a business loan, or a car loan, they're going to ask themselves, well, what else can I do with this money other than loaning it to this person or to this business? And keeping their money parked at the Federal Reserve, earning the federal funds rate is always an appealing option because it's perfectly safe and it doesn't come with any long-term commitment. […]
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- Abhi Gupta
- Dr Daniel W Woods
- Adam Zeis
- Kevin Boucher
- Roxanna Caldwell
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- 4.5 / 5
- 8 ratings
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- Quality
- 68
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 81
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Who hosts PennyWise: Personal Finance & Travel Tips?
John Kiernan host the show. Published by Lee Enterprises.
How often do new episodes come out?
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