First, the IPO market, long a rigged game according to the telling of
veteran financial journalist (and one - time investment banker) Bill Cohan, stinks.
Helaine Olen, a
financial journalist for Slate, Inc., and most of the big newspapers at one point or another, believes the hype around personal finance expertise has lead to a lot of bad advice over the years.She's sort of a personal finance anti-expert, a
veteran of the space who has seen the rise, and occasional descent, of dozens of personal finance gurus over the years, and who urges readers of her book Pound Foolish to treat them all with skepticism.