The Index Card
by Helaine Olen
4.2
Nine financial rules so simple they fit on an index card — save 10–20% of your income, pay off credit cards, invest in low-cost index funds, and ignore financial TV.
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Helaine Olen
American
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Helaine Olen is an American journalist and author known for her sharp critiques of the personal finance industry, author of Pound Foolish and co-author of The Index Card.
Helaine Olen is a journalist who writes about the intersection of money, culture, and politics, known for her skeptical, well-reported take on the personal finance industry.
Her book Pound Foolish exposed the failures and conflicts of interest in the financial self-help and advice business. She then co-wrote, with Harold Pollack, The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated, which distills sound money management into a handful of simple rules that fit on an index card.
Olen is admired for cutting through financial industry hype and championing simple, honest, low-cost approaches to personal finance.
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