The New York Times will start a consumer blog focusing on issues such as consumer protection, business editor Larry Ingrassia said Monday.
The comment came in response to a reader comment about why the paper’s business section didn’t have a consumer column.
Ingrassia wrote, “Ron Lieber, my ‘Your Money’ columnist, is gnashing his teeth over your query.
“I asked him for his thoughts, and he responded faster than you can say ‘consumer ripoff.’
“As Ron puts it, ‘My goal in life is to write about anything and everything that hits you in the wallet. To me, investing is actually the simplest part of the equation, as long as you believe in the indexing gospel (and I do — still do). So ‘Your Money’ is not about personal investments at all — I maybe hit that topic, defined broadly (including retirement accounts) maybe 8-10 times per year.†You can look up all his past columns easily on the Web.”
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