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The Los Angeles Times web site has a blurb on many of its pages this morning announcing that personal finance columnist Kathy Kristof will be answering questions [...]

Casey Serin of I Am Facing Foreclosure recently held a two-hour conference call to take questions from readers and to explain his situation. I didn’t hear the call, but I did read the entire transcript (part one, part two).
   

For those of you unfamiliar with him, Casey Serin is the Napoleon Dynamite of [...]

Leo at Zen Habits is conducting a series of blogger interviews this week, learning “how they achieve their goals, their most important habits, their productivity systems and more.” I’m honored to have been included today. I felt my responses went well. A sample:

What are the essential habits that you’ve formed to help you achieve your [...]

This is the last installment of an interview with Scott Durbin. Durbin has made an entrepreneurial leap of faith, leaving behind a safe job to pursue a dream, starting a rock band for kids. In the first part, we learned how the band moved from idea to start-up. In the second part, Durbin discussed his [...]

10:58 AM
Sparky: are you truly making boxes?
J.D.: No, we’re bitching about stuff.
11:00 AM
Sparky: gotta get back to rewiring
11:10 AM
Sparky: i made my own mutual fund last night and backed tested it from January 6, 2006
Sparky: it came back with a 30% increase to-date.
J.D.: Nice.
J.D.: GM? MSFT?
Sparky: no, that’s the JD mutual fund
Sparky: 12.3% Consumer Discreationary
Sparky: [...]

Warren Buffett is one of my heroes. He’s the second-richest man in the world, yet he lives more frugally than I do. CNBC recently broadcast an interview with Buffett. Naturally, it’s been posted to YouTube. Here’s the show in its entirety (with notes and excerpts I made while watching). [Update 16 April 2007: The show [...]

This is the third part of an interview with Scott Durbin, one member of Imagination Movers, a rock band for kids. Durbin is taking an entrepreneurial leap, leaving behind a safe job to pursue a dream. You may also want to read part one and part two.
How did starting the Imagination Movers affect your personal [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I shared the first part of an interview with Scott Durbin. Durbin is taking an entrepreneurial leap, leaving behind a safe job to pursue a dream, starting a rock band for kids. This is the second part of the interview.
What was your family’s financial situation at the time you started [...]

This is the first of a planned series in which I interview friends and family about their attitudes toward money. Most of these will be anonymized (and much shorter). Some will not. This first interview is with Scott Durbin, a member of Imagination Movers, a rock band for kids. This band is an entrepreneurial venture [...]