Archive for April 17th, 2008

Spending Smart in NYC

Last week, I appeared on a couple of television shows in New York, talking about my book, “Living Rich by Spending Smart.”

One was at the CBS building for a WCBS morning show, “Eye on New York.” The CBS building seems giant, containing all the CBS-owned networks and shows. I went through the whole make-up thing, […]

Home as investment? Not so much

Jonathan Clements, the great personal finance writer for the Wall Street Journal, is leaving journalism. In a parting “Getting Going” column, he referred to some of his columns that received the most feedback from readers.

Among them was “How Houses Eat Money” from June 2005. The upshot was that our homes aren’t the fabulous investment vehicles […]