Charley Blaine writes MSN Money's Market Dispatches column. He has been editor of Family Money magazine and its Web site, business/financial editor of the Times-Picayune in New Orleans and a business writer at USA Today. He is a former Bagehot Business Journalism Fellow at Columbia University.
Karen Datko, a journalist based in Montana, co-hosts the smartSpending blog. She scours the Internet every day for the best tips to stretch dollars.
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Matt Koppenheffer is a contributing writer for The Motley Fool and an analyst with The Motley Fool's newsletters. He is also the author of The Average Joe Investor blog. He has worked in the private equity and investment banking industries.
Douglas McIntyre is editor and publisher of 24/7 Wall St., a popular blog providing commentary on U.S. and global equity markets.
Jon Markman, former managing editor of MSN Money, is editor of the independent investment newsletters Strategic Advantage and Trader's Advantage. While he cannot provide personalized investment advice or recommendations, he welcomes column critiques and comments at jon.markman@gmail.com. Click here to see Markman’s recent article index.
Bradley Meacham is news editor of MSN Money in Seattle. He was previously Web editor of Crain’s New York Business and an editor at Institutional Investor. His reporting background includes covering finance at Bloomberg News in Tokyo (where his fluent Japanese helped) and business at The Seattle Times.
Anthony Mirhaydari is a business consultant based in the Seattle area.
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Kim Peterson is a freelance journalist focusing on technology from her home base in San Jose, Calif. She previously worked as a technology reporter for The Seattle Times and as a business reporter for the San Diego Union-Tribune.
The Simple Dollar blog explores personal finance from the perspective of a late-20-something who has just realized the need to get a grip on their money.
Debora Vrana is a freelance writer in Los Angeles, where she was a business writer for the Los Angeles Times for 12 years. She has a master's degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
Robert Walberg is a financial writer based in Chicago who has been a regular MSN Money columnist and contributor to the stock-portfolio Strategy Lab. He was formerly chief equity analyst at Briefing.com and ran for Congress in 1994.
Liz Pulliam Weston is author of "Your Credit Score: How to Fix, Protect and Improve the 3-Digit Number that Shapes Your Financial Future." She is a personal finance columnist for MSN Money and author of the question-and-answer column "Money Talk," which appears in newspapers throughout the country. Formerly a personal-finance writer at the Los Angeles Times, she is a graduate of the certified financial planner training program at University of California, Irvine. Click here to see Pulliam Weston’s recent article index.