Karin Price Mueller is a New Jersey-based writer with a specialty in personal finance and consumer issues. She tackles complicated money questions with an easy-to-digest style, providing financial advice for beginners and seasoned investors alike.  

Karin writes a weekly consumer affairs column called Bamboozled for The Star-Ledger, New Jersey's largest newspaper. Also for the Ledger, she writes a weekly money makeover column called Get With The Plan and the Ask The Biz Brain column. She is also the host and writer of "Money 911,'' a new multimedia series for MSN Money, in which Karin helps participants solve their money emergencies. She also writes for many national magazines and web sites, so she started this site for readers to have a one-stop shop for all of her work.

Before writing became her main focus, she was the executive producer of CNBC's The Money Club, where she led the team that won the network's first ever Cable ACE Award for Business and Consumer Programming.

When she's not writing money stories, Karin juggles her at-home duties as mom to three, family budgeteer, chocolate chip pancake master, carpooler, social director, tutor and Harry Potter/Star Wars factchecker. Then there's the ongoing task of explaining to her shopaholic sister why it's better to put that $500 in an IRA instead of buying those designer strappy sandals.  

Karin lives in New Jersey with her husband, three kids, two guinea pigs and one Beta fish. Whatever they don't eat goes into Karin's retirement savings accounts.