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Guns N' Roses member to write finance column for Playboy

I can’t believe I’m writing this sentence: Guns N’ Roses member Duff McKagan has been hired by Playboy magazine to write a personal finance column, according to Paul Tharp of the New York Post.

Tharp writes, “Playboy magazine hired the rocker for an undisclosed sum to write a crusading column aimed at skewering and reforming the crooked ways of Wall Street.

“McKagan claims he’s entitled to strum all the sour notes he wants about the wrecked economy. After all, he’s made a ton of money as a rocker and learned to save lots of it after kicking drugs and booze.

“Answering critics who would doubt his expertise, McKagan said he began studying finance in 1994 after ‘I got sober.’

“With time on his hands, he said he rummaged a file drawer full of old financial statements covering a six-year period at Guns N’ Roses, only to discover they were too confusing to comprehend and were ‘meant to mislead.'”

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