Diana B. Henriques is a senior financial writer for The New York Times, where she has worked since 1989. She was previously a staff writer for Barron‘s magazine, a Wall Street correspondent for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and an investigative reporter for The Trenton (N.J.) Times. In 2005, she was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize […]
Bernie Parent holds many firsts in ice hockey. He was the first goaltender to win back-to-back Stanley Cup, Vezina and Conn Smyth trophies. He is a Hockey Hall of Fame player and the initial inductee into the Philadelphia Flyers Hall of Fame. He knows something about success. We discuss his Journey Through Risk and Fear as we recount his life.
Here is the lineup of guests on BRAINSTORMIN’ with Billy the Brain for Wednesday, May 4, 2011. Listen at www.BrainstorminOnline.com or on AM 1400 in Ventura at 10 o’clock am Pacific time.
Ramit Sethi promises to make us rich. He’s an author, an entrepreneur and a business maven who provides a 6-week program designed to make us wealthy in his book titled I Will Teach You To Be Rich.
Caitlin Kelly examines how we spend our money. She worked for more than 2 years as a retail associate to investigate all aspects of retailing—from factory workers in China to Americans struggling to support large families on poverty-level wages. Retail is the nation’s third largest industry and the U.S.’s largest source of new jobs. We discuss what it’s really like to work for $8-$10 per hour from her book, Malled.
Rick Emerson is a media star in Portland, OR who turned his attention to writing a personal finance book for the next generation. He teaches us how to slay our bills, decapitate debt and fight the Apocalypse of financial doom from his book, Zombie Economics.