About Beth
Beth Kobliner is a personal finance expert, magazine columnist and commentator who covers our nation’s most important economic and social issues. Beyond offering practical advice and recommendations on a wide range of financial matters, she examines our behavioral patterns, guiding individuals toward a fuller understanding of the psychological aspects governing our money sense. Author of the New York Times bestseller Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties, she has a regular segment on public radio’s national program, The Takeaway, writes a monthly “Mind Over Money” column in Redbook, and frequently discusses kids and money for public radio’s Marketplace, for which she has also written a “Teachable Money Moments” blog series. She has appeared on Oprah to talk about personal finance and has been a repeat commentator on CNN, MSNBC, NBC’s Today show, CBS, and ABC, as well as various PBS and NPR programs.
Beth has been a columnist at Glamour, a staff writer at Money magazine, a contributor to The New York Times, and was featured in the PBS program “Your Life, Your Money,” for which she was also script consultant. Her work has appeared in The Huffington Post, Reader’s Digest and Moneywatch, and she has contributed to articles in O: The Oprah Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, The Washington Post, and Young Money. She began her career researching and writing more than 100 columns for the personal finance pioneer Sylvia Porter, whose syndicated column appeared in more than 150 newspapers nationwide.
Beth has covered such timely social issues as unemployment among middle-aged adults, writing your will, how to hold your children accountable for chores and allowance, smart money moves in a recession, saving for retirement versus saving for college, what health care reform means to you, taking advantage of tax breaks, parents who are bailing out their grown children, recession weddings, and teen joblessness, among many others. She has testified before a U.S. Senate policy committee on young people’s attitudes toward Social Security and has spoken at the Center for American Progress on the hazards of credit card debt. Kobliner sits on the board of the Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement (WISER) and was a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ National Commission on Retirement Policy.
A graduate of Brown University, she lives in New York with her husband and three children.