This episode of the Consumerism Commentary Podcast features interviews with Barron Ernst and Linsey Knerl. Barron Ernst is the product manager for Intuit’s Quicken Online and in the podcast, Barron and Tom Dziubek discuss the financial product’s features. Linsey Knerl is one of several authors of 10,001 Ways to Live Large on a Small Budget. as well as the financial website Wise Bread.
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[00:00] Introduction from Flexo
[00:44] Interview with Barron Ernst, product manager of Intuit’s Quicken Online
[01:17] — Quicken Online vs. other free financial management sites
[02:38] — Quicken Online’s “Trends” feature
[04:16] — Security at Quicken Online
[05:40] — Quicken Online on your cell phone
[10:07] Interview with Linsey Knerl, an author of 10,001 Ways to Live Large on a Small Budget
[11:28] — Ways to go green and save money
[15:00] — Saving money on health care
[17:31] — Avoiding tricky supermarket traps
[20:37] — Seeing the world for free
[24:03] End
Updated December 22, 2011 and originally published June 7, 2009. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the RSS feed or receive daily emails. Follow @flexo on Twitter and visit our Facebook page for more updates.











Luke Landes founded Consumerism Commentary in 2003 and has been building online communities since 1990. Luke, also known as Flexo, has contributed to PC World Magazine, US News, Forbes, and other publications. 




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Nice podcast. Quicken is a great product.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed the podcast!