Bottom Lines Top Dollars

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 a wild ride of their

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 fearing you might turn

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 golden carrot dangled in

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 the unholy trinity:

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, which may be some b

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 hate your life. NOW WH

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 assumptions and preferences: you’l

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 sideways in life and we cope by

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 relationships with m

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 culture, there's a general

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 (eventually) your o

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 all strangely gigs tha

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 in life. Punk cultur

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 it’s our lives we a

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 this day and age, that me

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 worse than it was in t

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-hardened debate: is it

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 dig into the massive w

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 end-of-year tax tips for those who

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 ask themselves when t