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The Best Personal Finance Podcasts

If you're a podcast sort of person, Get Rich Slowly has a list of 12 personal finance podcasts that they say are the best of the bunch—informative, entertaining, well-produced, and unique. "Money Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for a Richer Life" is their top choice:

The episodes are succinct but informative, and offer practical tips for dealing with money: how to improve your credit score, good debt versus bad debt, how to adjust your withholding, and wealth secret number one.

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11:51 AM on Fri May 16 2008
By Chris Walters
2,764 views, 3 comments

Latest by Fist-o™: Yeah, could be re-arranged to read, "Quick, Dirty Girl's Tips for a money Richer life", a guide to prostitution! more »

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Coming Soon To Podcasts, More Advertising!

The advertising industry has developed new and innovative ways to generate cash from podcasts. At this early stage, the ideas are nothing more than substance-free buzzwords; there is a promised "multifront initiative" that features "improvements in technology." We don't know what that means to the average podcast listener, but wow, doesn't it sound exciting? The few concrete ideas that have emerged are unimaginative and dated. From the New York Times:

Ms. Bratton, who is an online advertising industry veteran, said she believes she has found at least one good format for running advertisements within podcasts. In addition to placing a sponsor's advertisements at both ends of a show, she also inserts an advertisement in the middle.

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4:06 PM on Tue Jul 24 2007
By Carey
900 views, 24 comments

Latest by swingercast: Most of the people producing podcasts have nearly zero knowledge of traditional advertising. I'm not pointing that out to more »

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AUDIO: Comcast Easily Tricked Into Giving Your Personal Info To Wiseass Teenagers

Here's a clip from the Cmd Radio show demonstrating how someone armed with only a phone number and address can social engineer your personal information out of Comcast. More »

7:54 PM on Wed Apr 11 2007
By Ben Popken
15,267 views, 28 comments

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Vincent Ferrari Interviews The Consumerist

Vincent Ferrari interviewed us a few weeks ago for his new Side Salad podcast. We talk for 53 minutes about exploding batteries, Mike Krempasky, why blogs are neat, and why companies need to listen to their customers better. More »

7:56 AM on Thu Nov 2 2006
By Ben Popken
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The Consumerist Podcast

Hey, now there's an easy way to keep track of all our audio fun. More »

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Walmart Is Mad At The Consumerist

Earlier this summer, we did an interview with the No Respect! podcast. They asked us about The Consumerist in general and Walmart in particular. Especially of interest was our meeting with Mike Krempasksy (above, center, tie), who runs the Walmart blog war team at Edelman PR. After a series of disapariging posts, Mike wanted to meet up with us for drinks. He opened the meeting with, "This is all off the record." The next thing out of his mouth was, "What can we do to get you to stop writing about our companies?" You can hear more about it in this episode of the No Respect! podcast. More »

3:03 PM on Wed Sep 27 2006
By Ben Popken
3,206 views, 56 comments

Latest by SpecialEd: "The morality of reneging on a committment to a PR flack... sounds like the basis for a good piece of more »

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Big Thumbs Up For Audible

Here at the Consumerist, we don't merely like to crush our enemies and hear the lamentation of their women. We also get a thrill at the occasional email when a company does something right. More »

6:54 AM on Tue Sep 5 2006
By consumerist.com
800 views, 4 comments

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Pranking Solicitors Into Endless Telemarketing Loop

Creative Bastard blogger set up an extension on his phone line to route telemarketers to. It plays a loop of his voice being "highly interested" in the rep's offer, with the goal being to keep the t-marketer on the line as long as possible. More »

10:40 AM on Wed Aug 30 2006
By Ben Popken
1,193 views, 9 comments

Latest by carterdanks: Its great that people are finnally starting to come along, and actually enjoy the random phone calls from these annoying more »

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UPDATE: Comcast Censors Critical Nightline Story

Reader Jason reports that a fishy cut of last Friday's Nightline was also heard in their podcast of the show. Listen here. Missing on both the internet-over-tv service and the podcast was a segment containing an infamous clip mocking the cable operator. More »

7:46 PM on Wed Jul 19 2006
By Ben Popken
199 views, 1 comment

Latest by Ben Popken: Kimberly writes: "I am another person who can vouch for the fact that in least some markets the Nightline aired with more »

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Consumerist on G4, Small World Podcast

We did a good a whole bunch of media-whoring this week. In addition to CNBC, we also hit up G4's Attack of the Show to talk about viral marketing. More »

5:29 PM on Wed Jun 21 2006
By Ben Popken
61 views, 1 comment

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