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Meet our award winning reporters
Bankrate employs some of the top personal finance reporters in the business. Their work is reviewed for accuracy by a third-party financial review board of experts.
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Sarah Foster
U.S. Economy Reporter and AnalystReporter and analyst Sarah Foster covers the Federal Reserve, the U.S. economy and economic policy for Bankrate, where she helps readers understand how the world’s most powerful policymakers in Washington, D.C., impact their personal finances. She’s covered the Federal Reserve and U.S. economy since 2018, when she joined the economics news team at Bloomberg News. -
Alex Gailey
Principal Data Reporter, Personal FinanceAs a principal data reporter at Bankrate, Alex Gailey writes about the numbers behind consumer finance and economic trends. -
Jeff Ostrowski
Writer and Housing Market AnalystJeff Ostrowski covers mortgages and the housing market. Before joining Bankrate in 2020, he spent more than 20 years writing about real estate, business, the economy and politics.
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