Chris Taylor

Christopher Taylor is an award-winning journalist with over 20 years of experience covering the intersection of personal finance and human behavior for some of North America's most prestigious financial publications. Based in South Orange, New Jersey, Chris has published more than 300 articles exploring why people make the money decisions they do—even when those decisions seem irrational—making complex financial topics accessible and actionable for millions of readers.

His journalism has earned national recognition including awards from the National Press Club, the Deadline Club, and the National Association of Real Estate Editors. Chris specializes in behavioral finance, retirement planning, investing, real estate, and the psychology of money decisions. His work appears regularly in Reuters, The Wall Street Journal Buy Side, CardRates.com, American Banker, Fortune, Kiplinger's, AARP, and CNBC.com, while approximately 40% of his professional practice consists of branded content partnerships with financial services companies including banks, credit card companies, and fintech firms.

He has interviewed some of the world's biggest money minds and considers Jack Bogle, founder of Vanguard, one of the greatest financial role models of all time. Beyond traditional journalism, Chris has cultivated one of financial journalism's most engaged social media audiences with 33,000+ LinkedIn followers and roughly 18,000 Twitter/X followers. Through his LinkedIn newsletter "Cutting Room Floor," which reaches several thousand subscribers weekly, he offers behind-the-scenes insights into financial reporting, exclusive CEO and author interviews, personal essays connecting money to life, and job opportunities across media and marketing industries.

Known affectionately as LinkedIn's unofficial "Jobs Guy," Chris has built genuine community by sharing career opportunities and celebrating colleagues' successes—an act of generosity that reflects his belief that "it's a tough world out there, we have to help each other out." The son of a prominent Canadian journalist, Chris deliberately moved to the United States to establish his career on his own merits rather than trading on family connections.

He subsequently built a two-decade career across Fortune Magazine, Dow Jones, and Canada Wide Media before joining Reuters. Chris is a 13-time marathon runner who completed the Boston Marathon at age 50, demonstrating the same discipline and long-term commitment he advocates in financial planning.

A father of two teenage sons, he writes authentically about teaching kids financial literacy, navigating parenting transitions like college send-off, and his own financial journey. Chris writes daily handwritten thank-you cards as a practice of gratitude and relationship-building, and he's passionate about showing there's a real human behind his bylines in an age increasingly dominated by AI-generated content.

His articles use financial narratives to explore deeper human truths—examining personal loss and financial resilience, retirement in uncertain times, and the behavioral biases hardwired into us over hundreds of thousands of years that make smart money decisions so challenging.

Whether profiling CEOs on their favorite business travel destinations, explaining the retirement "magic number" debate, or exploring the disappearance of safety deposit boxes, Chris brings empathy, accessibility, and authentic storytelling to financial journalism.

Living just outside New York City with his family and beagle, regularly training at South Mountain Reservation, Chris continues his mission to help people understand their complex, irrational, deeply human relationship with money.