Media Coverage of Shira Boss and Green with Envy

Interview: “Homeowners turn equity loans into ATMs,” Morning Edition on NPR (June 29, 2007). Listen to the interview
Interview: “How Americans cope with their financial envy of others,” The Money Answers Show, VoiceAmerica (June 18, 2007). Listen to the interview
“Trying to keep up? You’re jonesing for debt,” MSNBC, syndicated column by Jean Chatzky (June 10, 2007). Read the article
“Peering Over Financial Fences,” The New York Times (June 2, 2007). Read the article
“Breaking the Silence on Finance,” The New York Times (May 26, 2007). Read the article
Interview: “Being happy with what you have,” Oprah & Friends Radio, Jean Chatzky (May 21, 2007). Read the summary
“Why not break the money taboo?” commentary on Marketplace (May 7, 2007). Listen to the commentary
Don’t Worry. Be Happy.” The Boston Globe (March 11, 2007). Read the article
Interview: “Envy driving you into debt?” The Today Show (March 9, 2007). Watch the interview (starts at minute 2:28)
“Competing with your neighbor got you in debt?” The Today Show (March 9, 2007). Read the summary
"Envy, Anxiety, Secrecy, Taboos: The Subject Must Be Money," The New York Times (February 3, 2007) Read article
"Envy's green can easily turn red in debt," Rockford Register Star (January 28, 2007) Read article
"Always in hock," The Washington Times (January 7, 2007)
"Keeping up with the Joneses is a killer pace," Wichita City Paper (January 4, 2007). Read article
"Slaying the green-eyed monster: take steps to conquer your envy and live your life satisfied," Black Enterprise (January 2007). Read article
"The color of money, envy and Christmas," Bankrate.com (November 22, 2006). Read article
"Borrowing more, just to keep up," Minnesota Star-Tribune (October 28, 2006). Read article
"Feel 'More Than,'" Positive Thinking (September 2006). Read article
"The Money Trap," Black Enterprise (August 2006). Read article
"Bookshelf: Keeping up with the Joneses," Columbia College Today (July/August 2006). Read article
"Mounting desires lead to more, more debt," San Antonio Express-News (July 23, 2006). Read article
"Keeping up with the Joneses can put you behind," Yahoo! Finance (July 7, 2006). Read article
"Dollars and Sense," King Features Syndicate (June 29, 2006). Read article
"It's time to break the money taboo," Beliefnet/Religion News Service (June 27, 2006). Read article

"Potemkin Portfolios," Los Angeles Times (June 12, 2006).

"Lust for money fogs our vision," Charlotte Observer (June 11, 2006). Read article
"Politicians living on the brink," Christian Science Monitor (June 8, 2006). Read article

"Interview: "Keeping Up with the Joneses," Something You Should Know, syndicated radio (June 7, 2006). Read the transcript

"Interview: "Jonesing for debt," Marketplace Money (June 2-4, 2006). Listen to the interview

"Interview: "The Karel Show," KGO San Francisco (June 4, 2006).

"In debt's shadow," Columbus Dispatch (June 4, 2006). Read article

"Financial voyerism with a lesson," USA Today (May 30, 2006). Read article

"Interview with Shira on CNN's "In the Money," (May 27 and 28, 2006). Read the transcript

"Green-Eyed Monster," New York Post (May 14, 2006). Read article
"Rein in jealousy and bite into debt," Houston Chronicle (May 14, 2006). Read article
"Beware of being endebted to envy," Baltimore Sun (May 8, 2006).

"Drowning in Debt," on national public radio's "To the Point" from KCRW (March 8, 2006). (Green with Envy talk starts at minute 25:35). Listen to the interview

"A penny earned is a penny spent," The Christian Science Monitor (Feb. 27, 2006). Read the article