Brett Arends is an American financial journalist. He writes a column for the Wall Street Journal'shttp://www.wsj.com website, though not the print edition. He has written a book about personal finance, Storm Proof Your Money.http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470482680.html, and a book about sports gambling, Spread Betting: A Football Fan's Guide http://www.amazon.com/dp/0751534110.

Journalism

Arends writes a column of personal financial advice that appears twice a week online at the Wall Street Journal and a column for MarketWatch

MarketWatch

MarketWatch operates a financial information website that provides business news, analysis and stock market data to some 6 million people. MarketWatch offers personal finance news and advice, tools for investors and access to industry research. Along with its flagship website, the company operates...

. He also writes a financial news column once a week for MarketWatch, a financial news website.

Previously, Arends wrote a financial news column for the Boston Herald

Boston Herald

The Boston Herald is a daily newspaper that serves Boston, Massachusetts, United States, and its surrounding area. It was started in 1846 and is one of the oldest daily newspapers in the United States...

 and TheStreet.com

TheStreet.com

-History:TheStreet.com, Inc., was co-founded in 1996 by Jim Cramer and Martin Peretz. It is traded on the NASDAQ Global Market. The company is headquartered at 14 Wall Street in New York City. Its stock was made public in May 1999 under the direction of past Chairman and Chief Executive Officer...

, the financial website chaired by Jim Cramer. Arends received a Best in Business award from The Society of American Business Editors and Writers in 2007 for his columns at TheStreet.com http://www2.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/03-27-2008/0004781478&EDATE=.

During the Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was a powerful Atlantic hurricane. It is the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall...

 crisis in September, 2005, Arends, writing in the Boston Herald, first revealed that Michael D. Brown

Michael D. Brown

Michael DeWayne Brown was the first Undersecretary of Emergency Preparedness and Response , a division of the Department of Homeland Security . This position is generally referred to as the director or administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency . He was appointed in January 2003 by...

, then the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency

Federal Emergency Management Agency

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security, initially created by Presidential Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1978 and implemented by two Executive Orders...

, was a political appointee, with no prior emergency management experience, who had been forced out from his previous job overseeing horse shows.

External links

• Wall Street Journal http://online.wsj.com/public/search?article-doc-type=%7BROI%7D&HEADER_TEXT=roi
• MarketWatch http://www.marketwatch.com/Journalists/Brett_Arends
• TheStreet.com http://www.thestreet.com/author/1106992/BrettArends/all.html