Red State Finance is a weekly newsletter and podcast covering money, politics, and the everyday stuff actually affecting your life — prices, work, family, the culture wars, all of it. Every Sunday, straight talk with a little attitude. No lectures, no doom, no pretending things are fine when they're not.

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