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Someone Interviewed Me

The Weakonomist — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:50:37 +0000

Weakonomics isn’t so special that I get much attention from anyone. But every once in a while someone wants to know more about me and I get interviewed. If you want to know my answers to questions like:

What was your inspiration behind launching Weakonomics.com?
In your opinion, is the housing market closer to a recovery in a year or in a decade?
What’s your stance on credit cards? Useful? Or the root of all evil?

Head on over to Credit Card Assist to check out my answers to those questions and more.

Weakonomics – Best Of The Best Blogger Series

By the way, I’m not so humble as to say I don’t love talking about myself. I’m always up for more interviews.

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Money Hackers Interviews The Weakonomist

The Weakonomist — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:21:23 +0000

Check out the MoneyHackers.net interview of me. I always love doing interviews and grant them to just about anyone. Please contact me if you are interested in interviewing me. Related posts:Money Energy Interviews The Weakonomist Interview With The Weakonomist The Weakonomist Interviewed by OneMint.com Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. Related posts:

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Money Energy Interviews The Weakonomist

The Weakonomist — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:55:17 +0000

I know you readers out there are anxious to learn more about me every single day. Last week, I was fortunate enough to be interviewed by a friendly Canadian personal finance blog called Money Energy. In this interview you can learn more about where Weakonomics came from, a little bit more about how it feels to work at a bank right now, my feelings on the dollar, my own personal finance philosophy, and a couple of economist jokes. Don’t miss this one, it’s a goody.

Money Energy Interview of The Weakonomist

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Subscriber Swap Saturday With No Debt Plan

The Weakonomist — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:00:21 +0000

Happy Saturday my friends. I want to introduce you to a fantastic blog called No Debt Plan. My friend Kevin runs this blog and has a been doing a great service to personal finance readers for some time called the Subscriber Swap Saturday.

No Debt Plan is about getting and staying out of debt with a plan. Kevin, the author, is passionate about budgeting, saving for the future, and using goals to reach financial freedom. You can subscribe to his blog by RSS or email.

This interview is part of a feature he’s developed called Subscriber Swap Saturday. The basic idea is to get the subscribers of one blog to subscribe to the other blog for at least a week, just to try it out. After a week if you don’t find that blogger’s content enticing, drop it. The hope is that over time you will find several writers that you weren’t familiar with who provide meaningful content to you. You can read more about Subscriber Swap Saturday at his get out of debt blog, as well as his interview with me. So let’s learn a little bit more about Kevin. My questions are in blue, and his answers are in black.

Using Twitter’s restrictions as a guide, describe No Debt Plan for my readers in 140 characters or less.

A personal finance blog that aims to help you get and stay out of debt while building wealth.

What is the No Debt Plan?

It’s the basic advice I would give anyone that is looking to go from in debt and lost about how to handle money to paying down debt and eventually being debt-free.

The focus and branding of No Debt Plan is obviously paying down and managing debt. What sort of insight can you provide for someone like me, who currently has no debt?

Keep it up! Getting out of debt is just the first step. Continue to spend less than you earn. From there you need to start saving for future expenses — emergencies, home down payment, future kid education, and retirement. There is always something else you can apply that money toward. You’ve just got to prioritize your goals.

You run a website that serves ads as well as working which means you have at least two sources of income. Do you think it’s important to diversify your income just like we diversify our investments?

Absolutely. I was very hesitant to put ads on my blog. For the first year or so I didn’t have any ads. I made a change and discovered I was missing out on making money! I don’t think they’ve bothered my readers too much either, or I wouldn’t have kept the ads up.

One of the founding principles of Weakonomics is that overall young people do not receive a proper financial education. What are your thoughts on this and do you think financial literacy courses are more important than learning Spanish, Algebra II, or translating poetry?

I don’t know which of those things is most important, but I can tell you it is at least equally important. I’m not sure the government should be heavily involved in educating our youth about money — they don’t seem to have a good handle on managing budgets, either — but I think we could definitely improve the overall situation.

I’ve heard you have a thing for old BMWs, which means you have taste. Given a budget of $500,000, what 5 cars would you love to own? And because personal finance forces us all to think about all other monetary concerns, go ahead and assume you’re rich enough to get a business school named after you.

I’m going to stick to my favorites: 1988 BMW M3, 1995 BMW M3, 1988 BMW M5, and an old school Porsche 911. You’ll notice that’s only 4. The rest of the money would go toward a garage facility where I could work on all the cars — and fixing up my current 1978 BMW 320. (Editor’s note: I love this guy!)

I’m getting married this fall, what advice do you have for me?

Marriage counseling. It forces you to ask each other the tough questions about marriage — kids, family, where you will spend holidays, money, where you want to live, etc.

And remember that she is a much more emotional being than you are, so be delicate with your words toward her. Someone can insult you and it will roll off your back. The same is not true of your wife.

Which was harder, business school or taking the GMAT?

Taking the GMAT. Geometry has absolutely nothing to do with business.

SEC or ACC? Yes this is a loaded question.

Loaded? There’s no question: Southeastern Conference. No one else is more dominant. (Editor’s note: the love is gone)

This concludes my interview with Kevin. I want to thank Kevin for taking the time to answer my questions. And even if his taste in collegiate sports is questionable, I would at least like to extend an offer: we’ll trade you Florida State for South Carolina.

Don’t forget to subscribe to his blog by RSS or email.

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The Weakonomist Interviewed by OneMint.com

The Weakonomist — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:08:21 +0000

My good friend Manshu, the man behind OneMint.com interviewed me this week about my experience being a banking insider. Manshu is my kind of blogger, he focuses much more on the finance side of personal finance. He knows investing like I know Star Wars. You won’t find any of those questions about my personal finances, just good down and dirty insider banking stuff. Check it out.

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Interview With The Weakonomist

The Weakonomist — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:22:21 +0000

Ever want to know more about The Weakonomist? Who is he, where is he from, what does he do? Well I don’t have answers for those questions but that doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty to learn about me and this little website of mine. Laura from Green Panda Treehouse interviewed me last weekend. In it we learn about my deepest fears, my greatest accomplishments, and what I was doing hanging out with Britney Spears in the early 2000s. Alright so we don’t talk about anything like that, but there is plenty to learn, and Laura has a great personal finance and freelance blog. My interview is in two parts on those blogs, the links are below. By the way, other bloggers and writers, I’m always up for an interview, just contact me and we’ll coordinate.

Interview

Part I: Green Panda Treehouse
Part II: Vega Baja

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