Helaine Olen is Managing Editor at Economic Liberties and a contributing columnist for MSNBC.com. She is the author of Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry and a co-author of The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated. She’s been featured on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and took part in Frontline’s Emmy award-winning The Retirement Gamble.
A former columnist for The Washington Post opinion page and Slate, her work has also appeared in numerous other publications, including The New York Times and The Atlantic. She’s also the former senior managing editor of Public Seminar, an online publication of The New School. She serves on the advisory board of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.