Before Suze Orman, there was Sylvia Porter. Beginning her career in the 1930’s, many women worked in the home, and the ones who went to work were usually nurses or teachers. Certainly, they weren’t in finance. Yet Sylvia Porter was determined to learn what had caused the great depression and changed her major from English…

Next week, I will be speaking at the CCH Connections conference in Orlando, Florida, and I get to talk about one of my favorite topics–behavioral finance. Behavioral finance looks at the ways in which people are not rational about their money.  Inherently, we all know that other people aren’t rational about their money.  When we’re…