The Bailout Wasn’t Just for Bankers

April 29, 2013
Hosted by Jordan Goodman

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Episode Description

Our guest today is Shari Olefson, JD, LLM, a Bar Certified Real Estate attorney and a Supreme Court Certified Mediator with degrees in journalism, finance, and psychology. She points out that the bailout wasn’t just for bankers. New laws and reforms enacted in the wake of the financial crisis offer once-in-a-lifetime opportunities for everyone to put their financial houses in order. With their credit, savings and investments, employment, housing, retirement, and more. Shari Olefson’s new book FINANCIAL FRESH START explains the benefits that can be derived from reforms such as the Dodd-Frank Act, the making Home Affordable Program, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. And it motivates readers to actively work towards improving their long-term financial prospects.

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Jordan Goodman has a mission: to help everyone do better with money. Since graduating the Columbia University School of Journalism in 1977, he has spent the past 32 years combing the country to find the very best ways to help consumers make and save money and then sharing these gems with the public. As a staff writer/reporter at MONEY Magazine for 18 years, a weekly commentator on NBC News at Sunrise and Public Radio’s Marketplace Morning Report, and through his 12, soon to be 13 highly respected books, and his website www.moneyanswers.com, he has provided useful, common-sense information to the public. Some of his better-known books include Fast Profits in Hard Times, Everyone’s Money Book, the Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms and Master Your Money Type. Jordan is a rare combination: someone who possesses not only encyclopedic knowledge about every area of personal finance but also a passion for helping his listeners not only to get educated but to take action to help their dreams become realities.

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