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How Home Insurance and Climate Change are Upending the Real Estate Market
The average middle class family has 67% of their net worth tied up in its primary residence. But there’s one looming issue: Rising insurance rates and climate change are threatening those property values—and they might be the canary in the coal mine of the American Dream.
We’re joined by Dr. Jeremy Porter, author of the First Street report at the center of most recent insurance analyses. We discuss insurers pulling out of “high-risk” states, “insurers of last resort” in those states, climate-driven migration patterns we’re already seeing, and how this is likely to play out over the next few decades.
So yes, this episode is about real estate, insurance, and climate risk—but it’s also about the assumptions underpinning wealth in America, and what it means if they’re changing.
Transcripts, show notes, production credits, and more can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/climate-change.
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The Real Cost of Being a Working Parent
In the past, we covered the national average costs for different types of child care and how it may be directly related to the gender wage and wealth gap. But Eryn Schultz, a CFP known as Her Personal Finance online, reached out to say the data was vastly undershooting the realities of working parents she works with. She joins us today to share the real costs of childcare and what working parents in the US contend with.
Transcripts, show notes, production credits, and more can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/working-parents.
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On "Dangerous" Financial Advice, Downsizing, and Dying with Zero
It's our first newly revamped Rich Girl Roundup of 2025, and we’re taking you on a scenic guided tour of the chatter spurred from recent episodes: our most contentious episode to date, one that generated moving revelations from listeners, and the two-part series that ended up being less polarizing than we expected.
We also discuss how to jerry-rig your Wealth Planner to project a “Die with Zero”-style drawdown, by popular demand—as well as the potential for a book club or community.
(00:00) Introduction to the new Rich Girl Roundup format
(03:59) General feedback we've heard recently
(12:55) Feedback on the "You Don't Need a Budget" episode
(28:27) Amending your Wealth Planner to "Die with Zero"
(34:45) Two moving emails from a listener, several years apart
(41:19) Feedback on the "What's Next for Money with Katie" episode and downsizing
(47:29) The possibility of a Money with Katie book club or community
(50:37) Feedback on the GLP-1 weight loss drugs series
Transcripts, show notes, production credits, and more can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/dangerous-advice.
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“You Just Have to Keep Buying”: How Diet Culture Profits from Fatphobia
Welcome back to Part Two of our series, the Economics of Weight Loss Drugs. (If you haven’t heard Part One, listen here!)
Today, we’re picking back up where we left off in our conversation with Lili Zarghami, a writer who got on (then off) a weight loss drug. Then we’ll talk with Dr. Mara Gordon, a weight-neutral physician who deals with GLP-1s. Finally, I’ll share my final thoughts and analysis on where the world of GLP-1 agonists is all headed and what it says about health, wealth, stigma, and class.
Transcripts, show notes, production credits, and more can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/diet-culture.
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1:12:39
The Economics of Weight Loss Drugs, Thinness, and Class Signaling
We’ve all heard about Ozempic. But there are the GLP-1s we colloquially call “Ozempic” (see also: Wegovy, Mounjaro, Zepbound) and then there’s the cultural role of Ozempic.
Given the price of these drugs, barriers to access, and class implications of weight stigma, this topic presents a unique opening to talk about inequality in health outcomes and the profitable business of individualizing social problems.
In part one of this rare two-part series, we’re covering:
The wage penalties associated with (and relationship between) weight and women, and the parallels between the American attitudes about thinness and wealth
The Danish pharma company that put Europe’s entire economy on its back
A conversation with a 12-year veteran of drug and device advocacy who said some of the surrounding issues represent, and I quote, “everything wrong with health policy in our country,” especially given the shortages, costs, and online pharmacies springing up to bridge that gap with non-FDA-approved solutions
Let’s take a peek at the inside the business of weight loss drugs, and join us here next week for part two.
Transcripts, show notes, production credits, and more can be found at: https://moneywithkatie.com/weight-loss-drugs.
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