Carmen Wong Ulrich
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Carmen Wong Ulrich is the former host of CNBC’s daily personal finance show, On the Money and can be seen regularly on The Today Show, MSNBC and CNN. She is an expert contributor to iVillage.com and is Glamour magazine’s personal finance expert. You may have also seen Carmen on The View, Nightly News with Brian Williams, as well as HLN, The Rachel Ray Show, and the CBS Early Show. She has also been a week-long expert lifeline on the nationally syndicated game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

You can catch Carmen on dozens of radio shows nationwide including Oprah’s XM radio network, Wall Street Journal Radio and The Cooper Lawrence Show.

Carmen also writes for Parade magazine and has been the financial advice columnist for Latina magazine, Essence, Men’s Health magazine and MensHealth.com. Her advice has been highlighted in U.S. News & World Report, the Washington Post, Elle, Self, Redbook, Yahoo! Finance and many others.

The author of the under-40 guide to personal finance, Generation Debt: Take Control of Your Money, Carmen is the former special projects editor at Money magazine. Her second book, The Real Cost of Living, will be released by Perigee/Penguin in December 2010.

She has a master’s degree in psychology from Columbia University, Teachers College, a B.A. from Fairfield University and lives with her family in Brooklyn.

Blog Entries by Carmen Wong Ulrich

Marc Anthony, Xzibit and More: Advice for the Tax-Challenged Celebrity

Posted December 30, 2010 | 11:56:49 (EST)

He sings like an angel; doesn't pay taxes like a devil. Marc Anthony, Latin crooner extraordinaire and hubby to a very sparkly J.Lo just got served with a tax lien of $3.4 million (Radar). And not his first time. He'd previously been hit with a back-tax bill for...

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Learning to Live: When a College Education is Always 'Worth It'

Posted November 8, 2010 | 16:28:50 (EST)

We've been hearing a lot these days about the value of going to college and the question of if it's worth it. A chapter -- "The Real Cost of Living" -- in my upcoming book addresses this question in depth, considering personal as well as financial costs, but as I...

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Color Me Right: Sharron Angle, 'Asian' Is Not a Compliment

Posted October 25, 2010 | 17:34:22 (EST)

I wish I could say that Sharron Angle's "You look Asian to me," comment was not too familiar to many of us Latino and Black professionals, but I'd be lying.

Take this comment from a certain exec I got a bit ago, ushering me into his...

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Uninsured: A Personal Price

Posted October 28, 2009 | 11:03:42 (EST)

My mother died because she didn't have health insurance. She was in her late fifties when all six of us grown kids were told that she had gone to the emergency room in extreme pain. The doctors and nurses didn't even need to test her blood or run a scan...

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The Choice to Thrive

Posted December 18, 2008 | 16:50:05 (EST)


I learned my deepest lessons about money as a kid. Our family of eight did OK, but we struggled to make it through several recessions. We went from what seemed like flush times, when all eight of us would dress up on Sunday nights to try the new...

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