As I wrote in this earlier post, I have committed this year to fill my 25 minute walk to work with useful podcasts. Here are some from WNYC‘s podcast series “Money Talking” that I thought you (and your students) might find interesting:

• Father of U.S. Finance Goes To Broadway (7 minutes): “The dude on the ten dollar bill is having a big moment. When the U.S. Department of Treasury announced it would demote Alexander Hamilton from his prominent position on the ten dollar bill,countless columnists defended his honor as the father of our financial system. Thousands have signed a petition pending before the White House to keep him on the bill. And next week, thousands of theater-goers will file into the Richard Rodgers Theatre to see the money man sing (and rap and dance) on the Broadway stage.”

• Reducing Yourself to A Sheet or Two of Paper (10 minutes): “Amy Gallo of the Harvard Business Review gets it: writing your resume is the worst. It’s painstaking to reduce yourself to bullet points and then to get the formatting just right. And then when you’re done, hitting “Send” on a cold job application often feels totally futile. In an age when resumes are easily uploaded online, the hunt for jobs seems more competitive — and discouraging — than ever.

• The Economics of Our Fantasies (7 minutes): “…But how different are online fantasy sports games from poker or even trading on the stock market? Money Talking host Charlie Herman talks with Andrew Stern from Business Insider and Tim Fernholz from Quartz about the nuts and bolts of the multimillion dollar industry and who stands to lose if the Attorney General shuts down the two websites.”

• The Perks of Cell-Phone Hell (7 minutes)

If you’ve stepped into a mobile phone store recently, you know the cell phone market is not exactly dummy-proof right now. Carriers have created a series of charts and graphs to explain a newly complicated web of options for cell phone users. On its face, the change to the market makes it look like plans got more convoluted and phones got much more expensive. But the first mover in the market shift, T-Mobile, actually just made phone pricing radically more transparent and plans more customize-able. If you do your homework, it might be the best time to score a deal on the cell phone market. Listen to Money Talking host Charlie Herman wade through the details with Tim Stenovec from TechInsider and Ian Kar from Quartz, just in time for your holiday shopping

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Tim Ranzetta

Tim's saving habits started at seven when a neighbor with a broken hip gave him a dog walking job. Her recovery, which took almost a year, resulted in Tim getting to know the bank tellers quite well (and accumulating a savings account balance of over $300!). His recent entrepreneurial adventures have included driving a shredding truck, analyzing executive compensation packages for Fortune 500 companies and helping families make better college financing decisions. After volunteering in 2010 to create and teach a personal finance program at Eastside College Prep in East Palo Alto, Tim saw firsthand the impact of an engaging and activity-based curriculum, which inspired him to start a new non-profit, Next Gen Personal Finance.

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