How Americans Cope with Their Financial Envy of Others
June 18, 2007
Hosted by Jordan Goodman
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Episode Description
In Shira Boss’s book, Green With Envy, she describes how Americans are gripped with envy about how their neighbors are doing financially, and tells you how to deal with that envy. She tells several insightful stories about how she dealt with her neighbors and learned to overcome her envy of what looked like a privileged financial life that in fact was a perilous one. Boss also goes behind the scenes in Washington DC to show you the financial reality of the lives of Congressmen and Senators, which turns out to be much less glamorous and financially rewarding than you might ever imagine. She also goes behind the scenes of one of the richest families in America, a billionaire couple in Palm Beach, to show that envy and financial tension are rife even among the richest people in the land. In her interview, Boss not only explains why envy is such a big financial problem in America, but also tells you what steps you can take to control it.
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