The Personal Finance Industrial Complex and Our Raison D’Etre

Helaine Olen has written a book about why the personal finance industry is pretty much disgusting, and in this great interview with Anna Clark for the American Prospect, she explains it all. BAAASSICCALLLYYY this is exactly why our site exists: “One of my complaints with the whole personal-finance industrial complex is the censorious, judgmental tone, that all too often sounds like a modern updating of a Victorian morality tract, complete with the wealthy so-called personal-finance experts lecturing the less financially well-off on how to behave.”

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