Troy Patterson, Slate’s television critic, writes Friday about all of the personal finance shows on TV, and declares that “The Dave Ramsey Show” on Fox Business Network is the best.
“He sells principles, as opposed to addressing problems ad hoc, and in doing so, he often acts as an on-screen grief counselor, a platitude-free positive-thinking coach, and an extremely likable dispenser of tough love. Ramsey’s core idea — which used to look iconoclastic but now just seems like the common sense that it is — is to avoid debt at all costs.
“He preaches it in a humble, down-home, no-frills way that leaves his audience owing him plenty.”
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