Youngme Moon, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Mihir Desai discuss staggering student debt levels, the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) Movement, and share their After Hours picks for the week.

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For interested listeners:

• The Basics of FIRE


• Mr. Money Moustache (FIRE blog)

Some recent picks:

• Today, Explained Podcast, Nov. 30 Episode (Humans 2.0)


• Babylon Berlin (Netflix)


• “The Prison Inside Me” (Reuters)


• Robert Stavins (follow on Twitter)


• FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data)


• RBG (Documentary on Amazon Video)


• The Man in the High Castle (Amazon Video)


• The Ringer website


• Janesville (Amy Goldstein)


• Airtable (software)


• Small Fry (Lisa Brennan-Jobs)

You can email your comments and ideas for future episodes to: harvardafterhours@gmail.com. You can follow Youngme and Mihir on Twitter at: @YoungmeMoon and @DesaiMihirA.

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