Makin' Money
Readin' (annual reports), writin' (checks) and 'rithmetic (all of the above)
Welcome to a new year of Money school! Anyone who can tell me Chris Farrell’s number one piece of investment advice goes to the head of the class and is exempt from mid-terms. (THURSDAY UPDATE: The answer is: diversify, diversify, diversify!) Oh — and before any of you get too cool for school… I know nobody writes checks anymore. Just thought it would make for a catchy blog headline…
We’ve got a crackerjack show planned for this weekend. First, we’re going to look into insurance issues in the aftermath of Hurricane Gustav. Home insurance is so expensive now along the Gulf Coast that some homeowners (who’ve already paid off the mortgage) are taking the chance to go without. Yikes. We’ve also got an interview with Kathy Kristof — a longtime friend of the program who just last week ended a 19-year career as a personal finance columnist at the Los Angeles Times. She took a buyout this summer… and she talks with us about living her own financial planning advice.
Let’s see what else… we’ve got rideshares… timeshares… how about nannyshares? That’s how some families are handling their needs for part-time nannies — they’re sharing with another family. Bennies included! Alisa Roth has The Nanny Sharing Diaries from Manhattan. Nancy Marshall Genzer in our DC bureau is going out on Thursday to the first-ever AARP job fair for seniors. We’ll hear from some of the attendees and talk to Nancy about how much of this job-searching is out of desire and how much is out of necessity.
And we’ve got YOUR letters this week. As I mentioned last week we got lots of response to our coverage of the 3rd anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, so we’ll air some of that. And a couple of foodie-type pieces got some of you quite worked up… Cash Peters’ story about going veggie, and Sean Cole’s about energy drinks (sluuuurrrrp sluuuurrrrp)… we’ll hear from you on those. And if you haven’t checked out the debate going on online over my interview with Leslie Bennetts, author of “The Feminine Mistake,” click on last week’s show and read through some of the comments.
And then post your own right here! What do you want to hear about this week? Tell me NOW…
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