Interviews

A Day in the Life of a Retiree

August 8, 2011

Good Morning DINKS! It’s time for the next post in our A Day in the Life Series.  We have already experienced a Day in the Life of an Intern, a Job Seeker, and a Banker This is a Day in the Life of a Retiree Jason, our Retiree, retired one year ago in July 2010 [...]

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Q & A with Bob Nichols, or How the Wealthy got that Way

July 7, 2009

Hi All, Its another brilliant day here in the states. For today’s posting, we are pleased to bring you an interview with Robert Nichols, the Chief Executive Officer of Windward Capital, a Los Angeles based wealth management firm. We are featuring an interview with Robert for two reasons. First, his funds managed to come out [...]

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Meredith Whitney on Upcoming Credit Card Changes

April 6, 2009

Hi All, Its Monday, time to get the week started. Among the usual flood of financial news is an interview with noted analyst Meredith Whitney. If you don’t know who Meredith Whitney is, she’s a star stock examiner who gained some notoriety for issuing sell ratings on several of the major banks before last years [...]

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One on One With Warren Buffett

January 29, 2009

Hi All, In case you haven’t seen this PBS’s Nightly Business Report is airing an interview with Warren Buffet for their 30 year anniversary. The interview addresses Buffets views on the market, advice on stocks, the financial crisis and his outlook for the Obama administration. Hint: Buffett is buying. Is there a chance to build [...]

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When I die, I want to Come Back As Me

December 17, 2008

Hi All, In case you haven’t heard of Mark Cuban, he’s a maverick billionaire living in Dallas and he’s my new hero. Why do I like this guy? A ton of reasons… He’s a great entrepreneur. He got a start selling software in the 1990s. When the internet hit it big, his company Broadcast.com was [...]

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Portrait of a Day Trader

May 9, 2008

Of all the cast of characters on Wall Street, day traders are perhaps the least well understood. Most people understand the role of CEOs, financial planners and mutual fund managers, but fewer people understand day traders. Most media stories suggest that day trading is a fast track to bankruptcy, so the public is often left [...]

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The Black Millioniare Next Door

November 28, 2006

Today’s posting is an interview with J.G. Thomas and Monifa Thomas from the Tavis Smiley show on National Public Radio. The purpose of the interview was to discuss Tomas and Tomas’ work describing African-Americans wealth. Since you’re probably short on time, I’ll briefly describe the results of their research here. The main finding of their [...]

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Money on NPR

August 25, 2006

This morning as I was waking up over breakfast, I heard an interesting interview on NPR. The guy on the radio was a personal finance expert and was advising young twenty-somethings on how they should manage their money. The interview was pleasantly brief and had some interesting comments on demographics and cash. Provided you have [...]

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Good Finance Interviews

June 6, 2006

While surfing the net, I came across an interesting website. The site is called “AnnOnLine.com” and it was run by Ann Devlin, who is a talk radio personality in Pennsylvania. For a few years in the early 2000′s Ann had a number of interesting characters on her show, which was engineered and broadcast specifically for [...]

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DINKs’ Favorite Interviews

January 1, 2006

We DINKs believe that learning from others – both their mistakes and their successes – is one of the most valuable ways to learn. For this reason we tend to seek our interviews and articles on successful – and unsuccessful – examples to learn from. We do a fair amount of combing the web out [...]

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