Invite journalist and author Helaine Olen to your book club to discuss her award- winning book Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry. Olen's book takes on everyone from Suze Orman and Jim Cramer, as well as the future retirement crisis, the real truth about women and money and, finally, what we should really be doing to ensure all our financial futures. She's talked about her book on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Frontline, now this Brooklyn native and New York City public school graduate will bring it to your living room. "It's rare to come across a realistic and readable book about personal finance. Most are laden with rosy promises, followed by acronyms and turgid advice. Helaine Olen, a freelance journalist, offers an exception with Pound Foolish.... It's a take-no-prisoners examination of the ways she says we have been scared, misled or bamboozled by those purporting to help us achieve financial security." - The New York Times "Have you ever met anyone who has grown rich just by saving? Probably not. But you may well have met someone who has grown rich looking after other people's savings. That dark secret lies at the heart of 'Pound Foolish', Helaine Olen's excellent book, a contemptuous exposé of the American personal-finance industry." - The Economist "Dishy dirt on the 'financialization' of American life and the hordes of carrion-pickers who swarm us in the hope of lifting still more dollars from our pockets." - Kirkus