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Afford Anything | Get Smarter With Money

Afford Anything | Get Smarter With Money

She's Researched Money for 30 Years—and Never Seen It This Bad for Young People, with Beth Kobliner

Jul 31, 2026 · 1h 12m

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About this episode

#737: Beth Kobliner has covered personal finance for people in their 20s and 30s for over three decades — and she says this is the hardest she's ever seen it. One in four young people now believe that betting on gambling sites and prediction markets counts as investing. Beth Kobliner is a personal finance journalist and New York Times bestselling author of Get a Financial Life, who served on President Obama's Advisory Council on Financial Capability for Young Americans. In this episode, we discuss: Why unemployment for college grads is now worse than the general population Why the average first-time homebuyer is now 40 instead of 28 How tap-to-pay and neobank apps quietly drive up spending…