About the Author
Matt Krantz is a financial journalist who specializes in investing topics. He has been an editor and writer since 1994. Since 2018, at Dow Jones’s Investor’s Business Daily, he has edited and written about financial markets and Wall Street, concentrating on developments affecting individual investors and their portfolios. Prior to that, Krantz was a stock market reporter for USA TODAY for nearly two decades.
Krantz has written or cowritten four books in addition to this one, including Investing Online For Dummies, Investment Banking For Dummies, Retirement Planning For Dummies, and Mint.com For Dummies, all published by Wiley.
In addition to covering markets for USA Today, Matt wrote an online investing column called “Ask Matt” in which he answered questions posed by the website’s audience in an easy-to-understand manner.
Matt has been investing since the 1980s and has studied dozens of investment techniques while forming his own. And as a financial journalist, Matt has interviewed some of the most famous and infamous investment minds in modern history.
Matt earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He has spoken for investing groups, including at the national convention of National Association of Investors Corporation, and has appeared on financial TV. Matt is based in Dow Jones’s Los Angeles office. When he’s not writing, he’s spending time with his wife and young daughter, running, playing tennis, mountain biking, ...
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