Bottom Lines Top Dollars
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Bottom Lines Top Dollars
A podcast about all the money things you suspect might be ruining your life
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28 episodi
Crunching on banking - SVB and risky business
The Ladies Who Crunch pop off to talk banks! Silicon Valley Bank - Signature Bank - Credit Suisse - First Republic Bank…financial institutions are on...
Live Debate: Can you have an anticapitalist business? Practical Ways to Thrive in Capitalism #5
In this episode, we discuss the conflicting leftist desires behind wanting to start or scale a business in order to avoid working for the man – and fe...
Retirement, or Life After Work: Practical Ways to Thrive in Capitalism #4
Retirement, the state of having worked in the past but now being done with working, is a troubled concept. Given that it is a marginally possible gold...
Wooing the unholy trinity to achieve a financial goal: Practical Ways to Thrive in Capitalism #3
How do you prepare for a big financial purchase? Besides dreaming you also need to scheme because it’s all about putting yourself in a position to woo...
Avoid Despair and Dig out of Shitty Debt: Practical Ways to Thrive in Capitalism #2
Much like the undead, debt can haunt and stalk you and limit what’s possible in your life - that is shitty debt. And however you got this shitty debt,...
Getting a Job That Doesn’t Suck: Practical Ways to Thrive in Capitalism #1
Bottom Lines Top Dollars third season focuses on Practical Ways to Thrive in Capitalism. First - you don’t have to love work, but you don’t want to ha...
Listener Mail: Taking Care of your Small Business, from Season Two of Bottom Lines Top Dollars
Listen up small business owners and future owners, this episode is for you!
Having a business can directly grind against punk-credible assumptio...
Coming Back From Some Bullshit
So it's been a while huh? Well.... let us explain....
In this episode The Ladies Who Crunch talk about how sometimes shit goes a little sideway...
The Old Punks Guide To Your Future After No Future
This is our final episode of Season 2 and our final journey through this season's theme of punk storytelling as a mechanism for understanding our own...
Born to Lose: Is "The Game" Rigged Against Us? And Other Punk Bedtime Stories
Leonard Cohen said, “the poor stay poor, the rich get rich, that’s how it goes, and everybody knows”. Well, once you know, then what?
In punk c...
A Guide to Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Death and Money
In this episode the Ladies Who Crunch go deep into the dark topic of dealing with death, both that of the people you are connected to in this life and...
Love, Hate and Tips: How Variable Earnings Are Rigged to Make it Risky to Work
In this episode the Ladies Who Crunch reflect on the coolest and best paid jobs that we all worked (or wanted to work) in our punk days, which were al...
Punk House of My Dreams: Living With Others in Collective Financial Bliss (or At Least Not Pain)
Under capitalism we are all supposed to be self-sufficient, competitive and selfish individuals if we want to ensure we have (more than) what we need...
The Trick to Figuring Out "Your Worth" in the Market When That Phrase Makes No Damn Sense To You
How do you value your time? Especially when we’re also forced to value our labor time: does anyone really have a grasp on what “enough” money is, when...
Debt Cancellation and Exploring the Ethics of Debt
Western narratives LOVE the “hero,” but it’s much more punk to be in touch with the reality of the many people who feel they are losing out.
In...
Our Tragic Minimum Wage Jobs and the More Tragic History of Minimum Wage
In this episode, the Ladies Who Crunch explore minimum wage, living wages, and the idea of maximum wages. Income inequality in the US and Canada is wo...
Origin Stories: From Queer Punk Anti-capitalist Outsiders to Finance Insiders?!
Kicking off BLTD’s second season on punk and money, Laura Boo and Hadassah go back into their punk origin stories from the 90s to analyze the time-har...
Mutual Aid, Gift Economies and What Comes After the Pandemic
In our final episode of Season 1, we take a hot minute to reflect on the year that was 2020 and what it might mean for our future. Specifically, we di...
Listener Mail: Tax Tips for the Self-Employed, Book Recommendations & Money Psychics!
In this episode the Ladies Who Crunch open up the mail bag and answer questions sent by listeners! This episode includes:
Some great en...
Is There Such a Thing as Ethical Investing?
In this week's episode of Bottom Lines Top Dollars we discuss a question that many punks, weirdos, leftists, environmentalists and anti-capitalists a...
Climate Nihilism
The climate crisis is here and it is scary as hell. So scary that it is tempting to close your eyes (and maybe even scroll past this episode). But ple...
Reparations
The Black Lives movement and other grassroots movements for racial justice have worked tireless to push the issue of reparations for descendants of en...
Mid-Season Moment of Rest & Joy
The Ladies Who Crunch unexpectedly took the weekend off to rest, feel joy and experience relief after an extra stressful week of election uncertainty....
Election Campaign Money
A special episode for election day! As you are waiting in endless lines to cast your ballot or obsessively refreshing your browser waiting for the res...
Billionaires
Which group of 2604 people made $900 billion so far during the 2020 pandemic while 400 million people around the world experienced income loss? Which...
Universal Basic Income
Universal Basic Income (UBI) has a reputation as a fringe idea that would be impossible to implement in the real world. But when the pandemic shutdown...
Housing & the Pandemic
Whether you are a renter or a homeowner, housing is probably your largest single expense and maybe one of your biggest stress points. The strain of me...
Pre-show (why are we making this?)
One afternoon in early Fall of 2020, two friends talk casually over zoom about why they want to make a podcast about money, (anti)capitalism, economic...