How Do You Define Success for Writing About Finance?

Nalists and financial writers have the ability to think a little more objectively about both the upsides and downsides of the financial world. So it's balancing that advantage with the inevitable downside that, you know, it's impossible to understand what it's like to manage money for other people until you are actually in the trenches doing it. "The limus test i try to ask is, if somebody reads this article one year from now, will it still be relevant? And for a lot of articles, i think the answers no," he says.