Wrong section, and as a denizen of the commercials folder, consider this my official lobby for promoting it to right under Others and Management. Also, managing to poke fun at women
and Jews in a thread about money is perversely impressive.
The spots are a little annoying and creepy, and like a lot of stuff that makes amassing and managing wealth seem easy, I'm naturally skeptical. (See also:
Rich Dad, Poor Dad, which turned out to be a bunch of fabulism and bullshit.) I don't know enough about finance to parse the details of what they're going for here, but from reading their website, it seems like one of those too-good-to-be-true little Oprah ventures that could probably help a few people here and there, but I also get the feeling that it's going to rope in people who are just smart enough to be dangerous, and wreak havoc on them because they Kinda Do It Wrong. To wit:
Quote:
Just a few years ago, we were like many women in their twenties and thirties; despite great jobs, we were drowning in over $50,000 of consumer debt. Inspired by an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show on personal finance, the five of us formed a money group, and together, developed strategies for turning our finances around - without sacrificing our fabulous style or social lives.
We are now the hosts of a fresh, new TV show on the W Network and the authors of The Smart Cookies Guide to Making More Dough, which will assist readers in achieving their financial dreams and goals without drudgery or deprivation.
Sounds like a whole lot of having one's cake and eating it too. Drudgery and deprivation kinda have to be part of the process. I know there's always a way to game the system, but I can't shake the feeling that this is going to yield a bunch of people who spend money on crap they don't need and end up worse off. Of course, this seems to be an American Express thing, which is a bit more reputable than the usual "Steve's House of Cocktail Napkin Loans" fare on sports talk radio, but again, skeptical.
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