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Liz Weston is a personal finance columnist whose twice-weekly columns for MSN Money reach more than 10 million people each month. She writes a money column, "My Two Cents," for AARP the Magazine, the largest circulation magazine in the world with 22 million subscribers, and authors the question-and-answer column "Money Talk," which appears in the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers throughout the country.

Liz is a regular commentator on American Public Media's Marketplace Money and has contributed to NPR's "Talk of the Nation" and "All Things Considered." She has appeared on Dr. Phil, Today Show, and NBC Nightly News, and was for several years a weekly commentator on CNBC's Power Lunch.

Her advice on credit and finance has been featured in Consumer Reports, Marie Claire, Parents, Real Simple, Woman's World, Woman's Day, Good Housekeeping, Family Circle, and many other publications.

Formerly a personal finance writer for the Los Angeles Times, Weston has won numerous reporting awards, including the 2010 Betty Furness Consumer Media Award by the Consumer Federation of America, designed to honor individuals who have made "exceptional progress in American consumerism."

Her other books include The 10 Commandments of Money, which the New York Times praised as "a wonderful basic personal finance book…[with] enough counterintuitive ideas to keep even people who know a bit about personal finance reading further." She is also the author of Deal with Your Debt and Easy Money, both published by Pearson.

Weston is a graduate of the certified financial planner training program at University of California, Irvine. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter. She can be reached via the "Contact Liz" form on her Web site, AskLizWeston.com.