Karen Aho is a freelance writer in Boston.
Kim Anderson is a freelance writer in Long Beach, Miss.
Kay Bell is a native Texan, professional journalist and self-proclaimed tax geek, as evidenced by her two popular tax blogs, Don't Mess With Taxes and Eye on the IRS. She is the author of "The Truth About Paying Fewer Taxes" (2009) and editor of Bankrate.com's tax section.
Bankrate.com is a longtime partner of MSN Money and one of the Web’s leading aggregators of information on more than 100 financial products, including mortgages, credit cards, automobile loans, money market accounts, certificates of deposit and banking fees. Bankrate.com is part of Bankrate Inc. of North Palm Beach, Fla., which operates several personal-finance Web sites. Click here to go to Bankrate.com's home page. Click here to see Bankrate.com’s recent article index.
Insure.com is a leader in providing consumer insurance information and quotes. Insure.com's articles help consumers make smart insurance-buying decisions, save money, solve insurance-claims problems and know their insurance rights. Insure.com also offers interactive tools and FAQs to help consumers with insurance decisions. Click here to see Insure.com's recent article index.
Lauren Barack is a freelance journalist living in Manhattan. Her work has appeared in Parenting magazine, Newsweek, the St. Petersburg Times, The Independent (London) and Variety, among other publications. Barack turned to journalism after a stint in comedy television.
Ernest Beck is a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter in Budapest and London. Now a freelance journalist living in New York, he writes about the business of art, design and architecture for publications including Businessweek.com, Metropolitan Home and Worth. He also reports on real estate and sustainability for The New York Times and SmallBiz.
Charley Blaine is an editor at MSN Money and writes the site's Market Dispatches column. He was editor of Family Money magazine and Family Money Interactive. He also was 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 in New York.
Charley Blaine and Elizabeth Strott write MSN Money's Market Dispatches column. Blaine was editor of Family Money magazine and Family Money Interactive. He also was 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 in New York. Strott graduated from Duke University and worked in finance before turning to financial news. She was an associate producer at CNN/fn and a writer and reporter for Bloomberg Radio, and she has worked as a lawyer and as a recruiter for a law firm.
Michael Brush is an award-winning New York financial writer who has covered business and investing for The New York Times, Money magazine and the Economist Group. Michael studied at Columbia Business School in the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship program. He is the author of "Lessons from the Front Line," a book offering insights on investing and the markets based on the experiences of professional money managers. Click here to see Brush’s recent article index.
Scott Burns is a personal-finance columnist who has been nationally syndicated since late 1980. He graduated from MIT in 1962 and studied writing with Archibald MacLeish at Harvard.
BusinessWeek magazine gives professionals worldwide the insight, information and inspiration they need to make smarter decisions about business, finance and careers. Click here to see BusinessWeek’s recent article index.
Jeff Cade is a freelance writer from Phoenix. He formerly worked at The Arizona Republic in Phoenix and the San Diego Tribune. His work also has appeared in Rotarian magazine.
Richard Conniff is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in Time, Smithsonian, Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic and other publications. He is a frequent commentator on NPR's "Marketplace" and has written and presented television shows for National Geographic, TBS and the BBC. His television work has been nominated for an Emmy for distinguished achievement in writing. Conniff is the author of several books, including "The Natural History of the Rich: A Field Guide."
Karen Datko is the lead blogger of MSN Money's Smart Spending blog. A veteran reporter and editor with more than 30 years in the newspaper business, she is now a freelance writer and editor who shares her Havre, Mont., home with dogs Furio and Phoebe Mae.
Darrell Delamaide is a freelance writer in Washington, D.C. He is a veteran economic journalist who has worked for Dow Jones, Bloomberg, Institutional Investor and other major business media.
Harry Domash publishes the Winning Investing stock and mutual-fund advisory newsletter, the Dividend Detective Web site for dividend investors and writes an online investing column for the San Francisco Chronicle. Domash has two investing books out, the most recent being "Fire Your Stock Analyst," published by Financial Times Prentice Hall. Click here to see Domash’s recent article index.
MP Dunleavey wrote the award-winning Women in Red series for MSN Money. She is the author of "Money Can Buy Happiness." Dunleavey lives in the Catskills with her husband and son.
John Dyer is a freelance journalist based in Massachusetts. He has written for The Boston Globe, ARTnews, The Christian Science Monitor and other publications.
Abby Ellin wrote the "Preludes" column, about young people and money, for five years in the New York Times business section. She also regularly writes the "Vows" column in The Times' Sunday Styles section, as well as feature assignments for The New York Times Magazine. Her work has appeared in a range of publications, including Time, The Village Voice, Marie Claire, More, Self, Glamour, the Boston Phoenix and Spy. She has a master's degree in creative writing from Emerson College and is the author of "Teenage Waistland: A Former Fat Kid Weighs in on Living Large, Losing Weight and How Parents Can (and Can't) Help." But her greatest claim to fame may be naming Karamel Sutra ice cream for Ben and Jerry's. Click here for her Web site.
Dalia Fahmy is a financial journalist with 10 years of experience. Her articles have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, the Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune, the New York Post, Inc., Entrepreneur, National Geographic Traveler and Parents. She is a founding member of the U.S.-based Arab and Middle-Eastern Journalists Association.
Bill Fleckenstein is the president of Fleckenstein Capital, which manages a hedge fund based in Seattle. He also writes a daily Market Rap column on his Fleckensteincapital.com site. Click here to see Fleckenstein’s recent article index.
Donna Freedman is a student, freelance writer, baby sitter and handywoman in Washington state. Learn more about her in this video. You can find more videos here and share spending tips with her on the Smart Spending message board.
Kris Frieswick is an essayist, humorist, author and business journalist who writes for a variety of national publications. She is the author of the "Cheap Bastard's Guide to Boston", and lives with her husband in Boston's South End. She's an avid bicycle tourist, a very poor hip-hop dancer, and loves an extra-dry Gibson at the end of the day, or the middle, depending on how things are going.
Melinda Fulmer is a freelance writer in Los Angeles. For nine years she was a staff reporter at the Los Angeles Times, covering everything from food to real estate. She can be reached at melinda.fulmer@gmail.com.
David Green is a freelance writer in Kentucky. He has written extensively about cars and auto racing for newspapers and magazines. Currently he is a middle-school teacher.
Tracy Harger is a certified public accountant in Columbus, Ohio.
Philipp Harper is a freelance writer based in southern Georgia.
Judi Hasson is a Washington, D.C., journalist who has covered the nation's capital for more than 25 years for publications such as USA Today and Congressional Quarterly.
Sally Herigstad is a certified public accountant and author of "Help! I Can't Pay My Bills," published by St. Martin Griffin Books. She is a personal-finance writer who has been contributing to Microsoft and MSN Money since 1998. Her Web site is HelpIcantpaymybills.net. She lives in Kent, Wash., with her husband. They have two grown children.
Catherine Holahan is a former writer and video journalist with MSN Money covering the stock market and general business news. She was previously a technology writer for BusinessWeek and regular commentator on The Digital Dish, BusinessWeek's weekly online tech business show. She graduated from Princeton University in 2002.
John Pearley Huffman is a writer living in Santa Barbara, Calif. His work appears regularly in The New York Times, Car and Driver, Popular Mechanics and Hot Rod.
Roger G. Ibbotson is founder of Ibbotson Associates and a professor of finance at the Yale School of Management. He is also a partner of Zebra Capital Management, which manages equity long/short hedge funds, and he serves on the board of Dimensional Fund Advisors. Professor Ibbotson has directly managed bond portfolios, traded equity securities and managed asset allocation accounts. He has written many books and received numerous awards, including the Review of Financial Studies Award (Best paper in 1992), Graham and Dodd Scrolls in 1980, 1982, 1985, 2001 and 2003, and the AIMR James R. Vertin Award (2001). Professor Ibbotson received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Purdue University, his MBA from Indiana University and his PhD from the University of Chicago, where he taught for more than 10 years and served as executive director of the Center for Research in Security Prices. Click here to see Ibbotson’s recent article index.
Richard Jenkins is the former editor-in-chief of MSN Money. Regular readers may know him as the author of "A simpler way to save: The 60% Solution" and other articles. Before joining MSN Money in 1996, he spent 17 years at newspapers in Southern California, most recently as deputy editor of the Los Angeles Times online service and news editor for the paper's daily Business section. He is also the author of "Supercomputers: The Parallel Processing Revolution." He retired from MSN Money at the end of 2009.
Emma Johnson is an award-winning journalist who has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Entrepreneur, USA Today, Psychology Today and Glamour. Previously, she has been an Associated Press financial writer, editor of a news digest in Bulgaria and a health care reporter for a daily newspaper in the Phoenix area. She lives with her husband and daughter in Astoria, Queens. Emma can be reached at emma@emma-johnson.net.
Jim Jubak is the author of "The Jubak Picks: 50 Stocks That Will Rebuild Your Wealth & Safeguard Your Future" and MSN Money's long-running "Jubak's Journal" column. Previously, he served as senior financial editor at Worth magazine and as editor of Venture magazine. Jubak was a Bagehot Business Journalism Fellow at Columbia University and has also written "The Worth Guide to Electronic Investing" and "In the Image of the Brain: Breaking the Barrier Between the Human Mind and Intelligent Machines." As an investor, he says he believes the conventional wisdom is always wrong -- but that he will nonetheless go with the herd if he believes there's a profit to be made. He lives in New York.
Brent Kessel writes the "Mind Over Money" multimedia series for MSN Money. He is the author of "It's Not About the Money" and is one of the top 250 financial advisers in the U.S., according to Worth magazine. Kessel is also the co-founder of Abacus, a leading sustainable investing and financial planning firm.
Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine is a trustworthy source of information on savings and investments, taxes, money management, home ownership and many other personal finance topics. Click here to see Kiplinger’s recent article index.
David Koeppel has been a regular contributor to The New York Times' business and job market sections for more than six years. His stories have appeared in New York magazine, Newsweek.com, Entertainment Weekly, Condé Nast Portfolio.com, Newsday and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He has covered the 2000 presidential election, homeland security at the 2004 Republican convention, the rivalry between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees and the perils of getting a haircut in the New York City subways.
Kathy Kristof is a syndicated financial columnist and the author of "Investing 101" and "Taming the Tuition Tiger." She's received numerous awards and honors, including Consumer Federation of America's 2008 Betty Furness Consumer Media Service Award.
When Rachel Lehmann-Haupt is not writing the Extreme Luxury column, she lives in a studio with a view in Manhattan's West Village, where she also writes for publications including The New York Times, Vogue and Outside magazine.
Marilyn Lewis became a freelance writer after a career in daily newspapers, most recently at the San Jose Mercury News. She specializes in writing about real estate, personal finance and technology. She lives in northwest Washington state.
Katherine Reynolds Lewis is a freelance writer and blogger based in Washington, D.C.
Peter Lewis was a Seattle Times staff reporter for many years and now writes for regional and national publications.
Lucy Lazarony is a freelance writer based in Florida.
Annie Logue is the author of "Hedge Funds for Dummies" and "Day Trading for Dummies." She lives in Chicago.
Jim Mallery, a former nation/world editor at The Seattle Times, is a freelance writer living in Edmonds, Wash.
Diane Mapes is a Seattle freelance writer and the author of "How to Date in a Post-Dating World." She's a regular contributor to MSNBC.com and can be reached via her Web site, Single Shot Seattle.
Jon Markman is the former managing editor of MSN Money. Markman is now editor of the independent investment newsletters Strategic Advantage and Trader's Advantage.
Scott McCredie is a journalist living in Seattle. He has written for The Seattle Times, Smithsonian magazine and other publications. His book, "Balance: In Search of the Lost Sense," an exploration of the physical sense of balance, was published by Little Brown in June 2007. Go to top
Suzanne McGee spent 13 years as a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal in Toronto, New York and London. Today, she writes about business, finance, the art market and philanthropy for publications such as Barron's, Institutional Investor and Worth. She travels whenever she can find the time and shares her Brooklyn, N.Y., home with too many books.
Teresa Mears is a veteran writer and editor in Florida. After 30 years as a newspaper journalist at papers ranging in size from the weekly Portland (Tenn.) Leader to The Los Angeles Times, she launched Miami FL on the Cheap and related blogs, part of the Cities on the Cheap network. She also writes the weekly On the Cheap column for The Miami Herald. She doesn't clip coupons, but she does shop at Goodwill.
Joan Melcher is a freelance writer living in Missoula, Mont. Her work has appeared most recently in Via and Miller-McCune. She writes for MSN Money's Smart Spending blog.
Tim Middleton writes about investing for a variety of publications, and is a radio commentator for WCBS in New York. A former reporter for the Dow Jones News Service and editor at Crain's New York Business, Tim works from home in Short Hills, N.J.
MoneyShow.com is where the world's top advisors help make individuals better, smarter investors. Click here to go to The Money Show page on MSN Money or read more in this explainer from Editor-in-Chief Howard Gold.
MoneyTrack is a fresh new public television series about finance and investing that features real people. Click here to go to the MoneyTrack on MSN Money home page.
Ann Monroe is a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal. Her "Walk the Talk" series for MSN Money is a multimedia presentation about putting your money where your values are.
The Christian Science Monitor is a general-interest newspaper with thoughtful, independent coverage for a changing world. Click here to see The Monitor's recent article index.
Lynn Mucken is a freelance editor and writer based in San Diego and a former longtime journalist at The Seattle Times.
Karin Price Mueller is an award-winning journalist who writes a personal finance column for The Star-Ledger, New Jersey's largest newspaper. She also writes for various Web sites and magazines. Mueller lives in New Jersey with her husband, three children and two leopard geckos.
Jennifer Mulrean is an editor with MSN and a writer on MSN Money. As a freelance writer, Mulrean has written articles for The Seattle Times, the Los Angeles Times and In Style magazine. A graduate of the University of Washington, she also has worked in various editing capacities at the Aspen Daily News in Aspen, Colo. She lives in Seattle.
Lynn O'Shaughnessy, a former Los Angeles Times reporter, has been writing about personal finance since 1992. She is the author of the "Retirement Bible."
Christopher Oster is senior editor for investing at MSN Money. Previously, he was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal and a senior writer at SmartMoney magazine.
Kathleen Peddicord is the publisher of International Living, a 25-year-old business that publishes several free e-letters, a monthly print newsletter, and a growing line of books and reports, all detailing the best places in the world for Americans to live, travel, and invest. Eight years ago she decided to bite the bullet herself, and moved her family of four from Baltimore, Md., to Waterford, Ireland. Since mid-2004, she has been dividing her time between Waterford and Paris, France. Click here to see International Living’s recent article index.
Kim Peterson is a freelance journalist focusing on technology from her home base in San Jose, Calif. She previously was a technology reporter for The Seattle Times and a business reporter for the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Ron Prichard is investing editor of MSN Money. A longtime journalist, Prichard has written and edited for the Eastside Journal in Bellevue, Wash., and several Gannett newspapers, including the Westchester (N.Y.) Journal News and USA Today. A graduate of California State University, Long Beach, Prichard lives in Seattle.
Amy Roe, a Seattle freelance writer, is a former reporter for The Seattle Times. Her award-winning work has appeared in newspapers and magazines in the U.S. and abroad, and has been translated into French and Spanish. She earned a master's degree in journalism at Stanford University.
Gina Roberts-Grey is an award-winning writer in Baldwinsville, N.Y. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including AARP magazine, Glamour, Good Housekeeping and Self.
Andrew Rosenbaum has been a financial journalist based in Europe for more than 15 years. He worked as a Paris correspondent for Euromoney magazine and launched Web site projects at KPMG and IBM. He has been a correspondent for The Times of London and for Time magazine out of Amsterdam. He has also contributed to The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune.
Carolyn Salazar is an award-winning journalist who has worked as a newspaper reporter at The Miami Herald and The Record in Hackensack, N.J. She freelances for the New York Post.
Jeff Schnepper is the author of the best-selling "How to Pay Zero Taxes," which is in its 26th edition. He has written several other books on finance and taxation including "TurboTax Deluxe," "How Much is it Worth? Asset and Business Valuation," "The New Bankruptcy Law: A Professional Handbook" and "Inside the IRS, How it Works (You Over)." A former professor of taxation, accounting and finance, Schnepper has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court and has appeared on numerous national and local television programs. He lives in New Jersey. Click here to see Schnepper's recent article index.
Abby Schultz is a freelance writer focusing on business and the environment.
The Simple Dollar blog is an exploration of personal finance from the perspective of a late-20-something who has just realized that he needs to get a grip on his money.
Shirley Skeel is a print and radio journalist based in Seattle who has written for Bloomberg News, The Seattle Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph in London. She has also produced radio features for National Public Radio and its affiliates.
Hilary Smith is a former producer for MSN Money.
Christopher Solomon is a freelance writer in Seattle. A former reporter for The Seattle Times, he writes regularly for The New York Times and has written for Outside magazine, Ski and Skiing magazines, and Men's Journal.
Elizabeth Strott is a former markets writer for MSN Money. She graduated from Duke University and worked as an associate producer at CNN/fn, as well as a writer and reporter for Bloomberg Radio. She also worked as a lawyer and as a recruiter for a law firm before returning to business news at MSN Money. She lives in New York City.
Joseph V. Tirella is a New York-based freelance writer who covers business, culture and entertainment. He has written for The New York Times, Readers Digest, Vibe, People, Esquire and Portfolio.com, among other publications.
Des Toups is a senior editor at MSN Money in Bellevue, Wash.
Allan Townsend is a writer and producer for MSN Money. He is a veteran journalist from the Edward R. Murrow School of Communications at Washington State University. Allan is an Emmy Award-winning television news producer. He lives with his family in Edmonds, Wash.
Anna Vander Broek is an editor and producer for MSN Money. Having grown up in the Midwest, she now lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. She was previously a reporter and columnist for Forbes.
Rick VanderKnyff is a senior editor with MSN. A California resident for most of his life, he now lives in Woodinville, Wash.
Debora Vrana is a freelance writer in Los Angeles. For 12 years she was a business writer for the Los Angeles Times. She has a master's degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in New York. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.
Robert Walberg is a financial writer based in Chicago and was formerly chief equity analyst at Briefing.com. He ran for Congress in Illinois in 1994.
Karen Wennerstrom is a freelance writer in Seattle and a former producer for MSN Money.
Liz Pulliam Weston is author of "Your Credit Score: How to Fix, Protect and Improve the 3-Digit Number that Shapes Your Financial Future" (Prentice Hall). 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 for the Los Angeles Times, Pulliam Weston is a graduate of the certified financial planner training program at University of California, Irvine. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter. Click here to see Pulliam Weston’s recent article index.
Wall Street Media entered the webcasting market in 1999. Click here to go to its Web site.
Jeff Wuorio is a small-business and personal-finance writer. He is the author of eight books, including "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Retirement Planning."