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Crazy Money with Paul Ollinger

Sep 28, 2021

Stevie Van Zandt is best-known as guitarist and founding member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, and for playing Silvio Dante on HBO's The Sopranos and Frank Tagliano on Netflix's Lilyhammer. But as he shares in his new memoir, Unrequited Infatuations, Stevie has done so much more with his time on this earth, even...


Sep 21, 2021

(originally posted Sept, 2020)
 
Would you consider yourself a success if you died with $1 million? How about $10 million? Well, what if you died with $0.00? 
 
In his new book, Die With Zero: Getting All you Can from Your Money and Your Life, Bill Perkins challenges you to flout conventional wisdom and spend your money...


Sep 14, 2021

(Originally posted June, 2019)
 
Gianni Le Nguyen fled Vietnam at the age of 5. Late one night in the early 1980s, her father wrapped his two young daughters in a fishing net, then rowed a basket boat out to meet a more seaworthy vessel a quarter mile offshore. They spent five days battling storms, illness and pirates...


Sep 7, 2021

Robert H. “Bob” Frank teaches economics at Cornell and is the author of a dozen books, including the one that caught my eye for this week’s topic: Luck and Success: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy.
 
Bob cares a great deal about recognizing luck’s role in our success because doing so, he argues, would...