Business Cents

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Welcome to Business Cents, the student focused show that focuses on money, issues related to money and how money works in our lives, hosted by MSU Denver professors Laurel Lane and Jessica Mace. Although discussions and lessons will be important to people studying Business, they will involve building blocks that can be applied to a wide range of fields and jobs.

  1. 07/24/2025

    Episode 17: Saving, Retirement Saving, and Employee benefit decisions Pt. 2

    Today we continue what we started in episode 15, this time focusing on different types of financial accounts. These include saving accounts, brokerage accounts, and retirement accounts.

    1h 11m

  2. 07/24/2025

    Episode 15: Saving, Retirement Saving, and Employee benefit decisions

    Today we have finally reached the very important topics of Saving and Investing!! This represents a new “unit” since the last several episodes have all focused on debt. In this unit, we will talk about putting money aside for emergencies and short-term goals (saving) and purchasing appreciating/cash producing assets to meet long-term goals (investing).

    46 min

  3. 07/24/2025

    Episode 14: Should You Rent or Buy a Home

    Today we continue our mini series on debt by tackling the question whether or not you should rent or buy a home and discuss the financial and non-financial implications and decision drivers between these two options.

    1 hr

  4. 07/24/2025

    Episode 13: Should You Lease or Buy a Car?

    Today we continue our mini series on debt by tackling the question whether or not you should lease or buy a car and discuss how debt can be leveraged to finance large purchases.

    49 min

  5. 07/24/2025

    Episode 12: Credit Cards And How They Work

    Today we follow up on our introduction to debt episode by focusing on one of the biggest contributors to debt in America today, credit cards. In this episode we go over what they are, how they work, and some things you can do to avoid falling into the easy trap of credit card debt.

    1h 6m

  6. 07/24/2025

    Episode 11: Checkpoint & Review

    This episode serves as a little recap and review of the first ten episodes and goes over the various topics we covered. We talk about career and salary selection, financial aid, budgeting/setting financial goals, expense management, banking, and debt.

    26 min

  7. 07/24/2025

    Episode 10: An Introduction on Debt

    This episode is the first in a three part miniseries talking about debt. In this part, we will cover what debt is, types of debt at a high level, why people have debt, and things that we all should consider before we decide to enter into a debt situation.

    56 min

  8. 07/24/2025

    Episode 9: How To Interpret Financial News & Why It’s Important

    This episode we expand on what we talked about last week regarding banks and explore some recent real life events that have happened in the news pertaining to them.

    58 min
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Welcome to Business Cents, the student focused show that focuses on money, issues related to money and how money works in our lives, hosted by MSU Denver professors Laurel Lane and Jessica Mace. Although discussions and lessons will be important to people studying Business, they will involve building blocks that can be applied to a wide range of fields and jobs.

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