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Beth Kobliner - Helping Young People “Get a Financial Life” | The Daily Show

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Financial literacy expert and author Beth Kobliner joins Michael Kosta to discuss her New York Times bestseller, now in its 5th edition, “Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties." They talk about only half the country requiring high schools to teach personal finance, despite the programs fostering the financial literacy needed to improve credit scores and manage debt. Kobliner effortlessly explains high-yield savings accounts and investing, why retirement accounts should be renamed “super smart investment accounts,” and how getting your finances together is easier than banks and investment companies want you to think. Plus, Kosta asks questions from “broke Daily Show staff” like whether robbing a bank is a viable retirement strategy and whether Gen Z will ever own a home. #DailyShow #FinancialLiteracy #Debt #RetirementAccounts #Investing Subscribe to The Daily Show: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWhs_6x42TyRM4Wstoq8HA/?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Daily Show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedailyshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailyshow Stream full episodes of The Daily Show on Paramount+: http://www.paramountplus.com/thedailyshow Follow Comedy Central: Twitter: https://twitter.com/ComedyCentral Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ComedyCentral Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comedycentral About The Daily Show: Jon Stewart and The Best F**king News Team host The Daily Show, an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning program analyzing the biggest stories in news, politics, and culture through a sharp, satirical lens. The Daily Show redefined the late night show category on TV and, with an audience of over 51M across social media platforms, has become a launching pad for some of the biggest stars in entertainment. The Daily Show airs weeknights at 11/10c on Comedy Central.

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@zachhosale9488 2026-07-15

"it's just sooo basic. get out of debt, start to save, then invest." tell me you have not come from the working class without telling me you havent come from the working class

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@michaellines8588 2026-07-15

There is a reason this interview is twice as long as normal DS interviews.

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@DaigonAEM 2026-07-15

How about you get paid a livable wage?

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@snarfled_garfle 2026-07-15

"don't charge what you can't afford" ... you mean food?

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@jmac4313 2026-07-15

100% financial literacy should be a mandatory high school course.

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@VTheResearcher 2026-07-15

The idea that we can just smart our way out of a broken system is insane. Yes, we should educate people about finances. But the broken system is the real problem. People who are making money enough to have proper finances telling people who aren’t to just pay more and pay things off quicker makes absolutely no sense to me.

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@youallhavezoidberg 2026-07-15

I wish that they went more into depth on the number of online banks thwt advertise FDIC insurance, but don't actually have it. There's some investigative journalism related to a failed online bank, Yotta Bank, that failed and lost $100 million worth of deposits. Because Yotta is a fintech company, they did not need a bank charter to operate. Instead, they partnered with banks to process payments and advertised FDIC insurance because of that. $100 million are gone. Some people lost their life's savings.

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@winwitheq 2026-07-15

Excellent segment

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@marisamendez4136 2026-07-15

Again grateful for guests kosta has been having lately super helpful and simple and wholesome

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@Siophissa 2026-07-15

The problem for a large number of people is not making enough money to do much more than scrape by. There's basically nothing to save. Its a joke to tell people to even save 3-6 months of income. The system is broken.

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