A Place to Call Home: Right on the Money! Asks is Homeownership a Smart Move for Everyone?Television/Personal Finance/Feature & Lifestyle Editors MINNEAPOLIS & ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 2003 She's like a modern-day nomad. Terri Tucker has lived a life full of travel and adventure. She's resided in nearly two dozen different places in her 53 years. While Terri relishes the freedom to head out whenever she wants, she worries about the financial price she's paid for her freedom--specifically, her meager mea·ger also mea·gre adj. 1. Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty. 2. Deficient in richness, fertility, or vigor; feeble: the meager soil of an eroded plain. 3. retirement funds. As Terri gets her retirement plan in order, she wonders if buying a house now and selling it in a couple of years would add to her nest egg Nest Egg A special sum of money saved or invested for one specific future purpose. Notes: Examples of the purposes for which nest eggs are usually intended include retirement, education, and even entertainment (vacations and cruises). . Watch Right on the Money! on TPT TPT Transport TPT Trumpet (music scores) TPT The Physics Teacher TPT Tara Palmer-Tomkinson (UK celebrity) TPT Trailer Park Trash TPT Temporary Part Time TPT Thermodynamic Perturbation Theory 2 Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 6:30 p.m. or TPT17 on Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 7:30 p.m. and find out if homeownership is right for everyone. "When it comes to making a profit in real estate, the price tag on the house isn't the only thing to consider," said Right on the Money! host Chris Farrell. "Buying a house on a two-year horizon could be a big gamble." Right on the Money! - A 26-part, national series on public television - launched its fifth season in January 2003. The series, hosted by award-winning business journalist and financial expert Chris Farrell, shows viewers how to get their money in sync with their lifestyle through smarter, more informed financial decisions. Right on the Money! is carried by more than 160 public television stations and is seen by over one million viewers each week. The series is distributed by American Public Television American Public Television (APT) is the largest of the television syndication distributors of programming for public television stations in the United States. It began in 1961 as the Eastern Educational Television Network (APT) and produced by Twin Cities Public Television Twin Cities Public Television (TPT) is a nonprofit organization based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, that operates the Twin Cities' two PBS member stations, KTCA-TV (channel 2) and KTCI-TV (channel 17). (TPT) with major funding provided exclusively by Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America. You can find Right on the Money! on the Web at: www.rightonthemoney.org. Season Five of Right on the Money! takes a dynamic, contemporary approach to solving money matters not just of the wallet, but of the heart. The series covers everything from starting up a bed-and-breakfast, to successfully retiring on less money. From managing finances when you're called to duty in the military to having your adult children "boomerang boomerang (b  `mərăng'), special form of throwing stick, used mainly by the aborigines of Australia. " back home. Want to be an
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Host Chris Farrell has been coaching and advising consumers on business and financial affairs for well over two decades. Farrell is a contributor on public television's Nightly Business Report Nightly Business Report is a financial news television program that is broadcast live, weekday evenings on most of the public television stations in the United States. Frequently abbreviated to NBR, the show is produced by public television station WPBT-TV in Miami, Florida, and . He also co-hosts Sound Money, a weekly one-hour personal finance call-in radio show produced by Minnesota Public Radio Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) is a regional public radio network based in the U.S. state of Minnesota that has been broadcasting since 1967. The network includes more than 50 FM transmitters ranging from low-power translators in small and hard-to-reach areas up to full-power and syndicated to more than 170 markets nationwide. In addition to his broadcast and radio experience, Farrell is the contributing economics editor for Business Week magazine. A graduate of the London School of Economics The School is a member of the Russell Group, the European University Association, Association of Commonwealth Universities, the Community of European Management Schools and International Companies, The Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs as well as the Golden , Chris has established a reputation as one of America's most influential business journalists. |
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