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What You Need To Be Affluent

November 15, 2011

 

Interview with Joan Indursky DiFuria, author of the book Affluence Intelligence: Earn More, Worry Less, and Live a Happy and Balanced Life

 

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Mike Carruthers:
What does it mean to be truly wealthy and fulfilled? It’s a fascinating question and some researchers did some digging.

 

Joan Indursky DiFuria:
As we spent more time with the truly affluent we learned that they have this certain something we call it affluence intelligence - which is a mindset that makes people not just wealthy but deeply fulfilled.
 


Joan Indursky DiFuria

Help For Credit Card Debt

February 10, 2011

 

Interview with Kelly Shelton VP of Family financial Education Foundation

 

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Mike Carruthers:
As the economy recovers credit card use has actually dropped but there are still plenty of people with serious credit card debt.

 

Kelly Shelton:
Credit card companies now, by law, have to disclose to you how long it will take you to pay off a credit card. And for many people that is 20 years and thousands and thousands of dollars in interest.
 


Kelly Shelton

What To Do With Your Money Now - Part 2

October 20, 2010

 

Interview with Ken Kamen, author of the book Reclaim Your Nest Egg: Take Control of Your Financial Future (Bloomberg)

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Now that the economy seems to be recovering, everyday investors want to know where to put their money. 
 

 

Ken Kamen:
Spending a lot of time picking through which individual companies to own is just not the best use of the casual investor's time.
 


Ken Kamen

What To Do With Your Money Now

 October 19, 2010

 

Interview with Ken Kamen, author of the book Reclaim Your Nest Egg: Take Control of Your Financial Future (Bloomberg)

 

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Mike Carruthers:
The tough economic times of the last few years has proven to be a hard lesson for many.

 

Ken Kamen:
The number 1 thing that’s happened since the market meltdown is that people have lost confidence more than they’ve lost money.
 


Ken Kamen

How Wealthy People Think & Act

July 15, 2010

 

Interview with Deborah Owens, author of the book A Purse of Your Own: An Easy Guide to Financial Security

 

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Mike Carruthers:
When you look at how most wealthy people got that way you realize that they look at money differently than other people and they understand that…

 

Deborah Owens:
The average person is usually wrong and they understand that they have to act the opposite than everyone else and generally they’ll be OK.

 


Deborah Owens

Changing How We Live

 May 10, 2010

 

Interview with Richard Florida, author of the book The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Although the economy seems to be recovering it has taken a toll and changed how people live.

 

Richard Florida:
And I think what we’re doing right now, in the reset, people all over our country are resetting the way they live and reinventing new ways of living and working – and that’s what’s going to pull us up.

 


Richard Florida

Richard Florida, author of the book The Great Reset

Simple Money Strategies

January 21, 2010

 

Interview with Manisha Thakor, co-author of the book Get Financially Naked: How to Talk Money with Your Honey

 

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Mike Carruthers:
There is no shortage of people with advice on what you should do with your money. But here’s some advice regarding that advice…

 

Manisha Thakor:
Good personal finance can and should be simple and if you don’t understand what somebody’s saying to you chances are they don’t understand it – ask until you feel completely comfortable.

 


Manisha Thakor

Good News About Your Financial Future

January 8, 2010

 

Interview with Jonathan Pond, author of the book You Can Do It!: The Boomer's Guide to a Great Retirement

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Baby Boomers, it's been said, have a perilous financial future because they have too much debt, not enough money saved and their retirement outlook is bleak - well, here's a different point of view…

 

Jonathan Pond:
Boomers are in a lot better condition than the media and the financial services industry would have it - some studies have suggested that as many as 80% of Boomers are on track to achieve a pretty good retirement.

Jonathan Pond

 

Should You Be Saving Money?

October 12, 2009

Interview with Robert Kiyosaki, author of the book Rich Dad's Conspiracy of the Rich: The 8 New Rules of Money

 

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Mike Carruthers:
As a result of the recession, a lot of people have started to save more money.

 

Robert Kiyosaki:
Why would you save money now when the banks are paying about 0% interest and the Fed has printed more money in six months than it has done in almost all of history.


Robert Kiyosaki

 

How Do You Diversify Your Investments?

 August 27, 2009

Interview with Bill Schultheis, author of The New Coffeehouse Investor: How to Build Wealth, Ignore Wall Street, and Get on with Your Life


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Mike Carruthers:
If the recent loses in the stock market have taught us anything it's the old rule of diversification.

 

Bill Schultheis:
There was an interesting segment on "60 Minutes" in April about the tragedy of 401K plans and how people who were close to retirement lost 50% of their portfolio. Well that means they had 100%  in stocks and so they were not diversified.


Bill Schultheis  

 

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