Stuart Vyse

New Release,

February, 2008

Going Broke:

Why Americans Can’t Hold On To Their Money

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Going Broke Events & News
On November 29, SV was quoted in an article entitled “Over-indebted to credit” in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
SV was featured in a “conversations” piece in the November 16 edition of the Washington Post.
On November 1, SV was profiled in The Day (New London, CT).
On October 14, SV was quoted in the Washington Post story “Got Recession? Come on Down!”
SV was quoted in the November issue of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine.
On August 18, SV appeared on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer in a segment entitled “Americans’ Reliance on Credit Leads Many into Debt.” Both audio and streaming video can be found here.
On August 12, at 5:30 Pacific Time, SV will appear on Jonathan Rowe’s show on KWMR-FM in West Marin County, CA.
SV is quoted in “It pays to discuss finances together,” a third article in a series on personal finance in the July 13 Akron Journal Beacon.
GB is featured in an article “What’$ behind American con$umeri$m?” in the July/August issue of the American Psychological Association’s Monitor on Psychology.
SV gave tips for saving money in the July 6 issue of the Akron Beacon Journal.
On July 1, at SV will appeared on “The Jack Rice Show” on WCCO radio, Minneapolis, MN. Audio available here.
On June 22 the Akron (OH) Beacon Journal ran a story “Convince Yourself to Rein in Spending” highlighting GB and including many of SV’s tips for saving. This article was part of a unique series that challenged Akron area residents to take on their own personal financial goals.
A review of GB entitled “Curing Personal Credit Crisis” appeared in the June 20th Hartford Courtant.
SV’s very lively phone interview on the Traders Nation television show has recently been posted on Blip.tv.
SV is quoted in a Gatehouse News Service story on how to deal with personal debt. Here is copy that ran in the May 5th edition of the Register-Mail of Galesburg, IL.
Newsweek columnist Robert Samuelson comments on GB in his article “The Great Shopping Spree, R.I.P.” in the April 28th issue.
SV’s commentary piece “Our Love-Hate Relationship with Plastic” appears in the April 23 issue of the Providence Journal.
Samuelson’s Newsweek column also appears on the April 23 op-ed page of The Washington Post.
SV’s essay “The Swipe-Happy Road to Debt” has been posted on the Oxford University Press blog.
SV spoke about GB in a podcast interview on Psychjourney.
In her March 30th article “Debt Addicts Get a Dose of Reality,” Washington Post personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary has again featured GB and commentary by SV.
On March 20 SV participated in a webchat with personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary on the Washington Post website. The transcript of the webchat is here.
SV appeared on “Virginia Insight” on WMRA radio on March 17. The audio file is here.
SV is quoted in Joe Nocera’s March 14th column in NY Times, “Credit Cards are Frothy, not Bubbly.”
A review of GB by Minneapolis Star Tribune personal finance columnist Kara McGuire appeared in that paper and also the Orlando Sentinel.
SV is quoted in a March 9 LA Times article “Building Wealth by Paying Off Mortgage Debt.”
The ABCNews.com story “The Next Crisis: Credit Card Debt?” includes comments by SV.
Nationally syndicated Washington Post personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary has chosen Going Broke as the March selection of her Color of Money Book Club. Singletary wrote about the book in her March 2 column.
SV will participate in a webchat with Michelle Singletary on at washingtonpost.com on March 20 at noon ET.
• A review of Going Broke appeared in The New York Sun on February 22.
• “The Psychology of Insolvency.” a Reuters story on Going Broke appeared in the Guardian of London on February 21.
• The OUPblog has posted a podcast featuring an interviewed of SV by Marion Osmun, editor of Going Broke.
• The Time Magazine Curious Capitalist blog has a long posting on Going Broke “How Canada is the Answer to American Indebtedness” that includes excerpts from GB and a brief video of the author.
• The Newsweek.com article “Why Americans are Going Broke” features an interview with SV.

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