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Money Mogul McKagan?
Velvet Revolver’s Duff McKagan has landed a rather unlikely assignment for Playboy magazine – writing a column pontificating about the evils of Wall Street and offering financial advice.
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Velvet Revolver member Duff McKagan is joined by Billy Idol during Vanity Fair’s benefit for the Step Up Women’s Network at The Avalon in Hollywood.
Various reports say McKagan, who already writes a column for the Seattle Weekly, got interested in finance in 1994 after he got sober and tried to make sense of six years’s worth of financial statements from his Guns N’ Roses days.
As a result, he took courses in finance and economics at Santa Monica Community College in California and Albers School of Business at Seattle University, according to the New York Post.
The Post quotes McKagan as saying he doesn’t know it all but neither do other analysts, the paper said.
“Those boneheads on TV just want to make themselves come off as smart … I hope to shed some no-nonsense light on day-to-day money issues. I will do my best to expose frauds and criminals, one at a time.”