Geoff Williams

Geoff Williams

Geoff Williams has been a freelance journalist since the 1990s, writing extensively about personal finance and small business issues. He has written for U.S. News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal, CNNMoney.com, Consumer Reports, Reuters and many more publications. Williams is also the author of several books and writes a classic-TV blog called The TV Professor. Williams lives in Loveland, Ohio, with his two daughters, when they aren’t away at college.

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