Helaine Olen

Helaine Olen on The Daily Show: ‘It’s Not Our Personal Finances, It’s Our Collective Personal Finances’
By Paul Bremmer | February 21, 2013 | 5:26 PM EST

Freelance journalist Helaine Olen appeared on The Daily Show Wednesday night to promote her new book Pound Foolish, in which she attacks the financial planning industry as a group of snake oil salesmen. The show didn’t have enough time to air the full conversation, so viewers had to go online to www.thedailyshow.com to hear Olen’s proposed solution for de-emphasizing the importance of investing.

It must have shocked anyone who believes in personal responsibility. Olen’s answer to the personal finance industry can be found in a core tenet of the Occupy Wall Street movement:

NYTimes Shows Pro-OWS Ickiness: 'For Children's Sake, Taking to the Streets'
By Clay Waters | October 28, 2011 | 8:50 AM EDT

In the New York Times's Thursday Styles section, contributor Helaine Olen talked to some liberal Manhattanites who took their children to Zuccotti Park to enrich them with “teachable moments” (i.e. using them as political props) and "to enlighten them on matters ranging from income inequality to the right to protest":“For Children’s Sake, Taking to the Streets.”