Helaine Olen

Thomas J. Stanley, the co-author of the personal finance classic The Millionaire Next Door, died in a car accident last week at the age of 71. The obits were both sorrowful and laudatory. The book “stands today as a sort of promise that everyday people have a shot at ...

We’ve just concluded the ninth annual “America Saves Week,” such a wholesome-sounding event that it seems almost churlish to complain about it. As my pal Chuck Jaffe put it at Marketwatch, if the event’s name were accurate, it would be called “America Doesn’t Save ...

Last week, a gorgeous black standard poodle named Flame came close to taking the “Best in Show” title at the annual Westminster Dog Show, but lost out at the last minute to the stunning beagle Miss P. Purebred dogs like these, not surprisingly, are costly companions. But ...

One can think of gentrifying neighborhoods as the real estate equivalent of Ernest Hemingway’s bankrupt veteran in The Sun Also Rises. Change occurs gradually and then suddenly. Once upon a time, places like Brooklyn’s Williamsburg, San Francisco’s Mission District, and ...

Was the hoodied billionaire hoodwinked? That’s one conclusion one could reach after reading Dale Russakoff’s exhaustive piece in The New Yorker this week on Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s $100 million challenge grant investment designed to jumpstart the ...