This Suze Orman profile in the NYT elliptically seems to address one of the main issues I have with her.→[More:]

She's all about "financial honesty", but I always feel like she's being glib or even slick at some level.

For instance. The NYT changes the facts on her "origin story". She said before that she got a $50,000 tip from a customer, now it's a group of customers. She has said that her Merrill Lynch broker swindled her out of this money, and that she sued them on the way to becoming a broker for them herself, but there's no mention of the lawsuit here -- just a "lousy stockbroker" who let her investment dwindle.

There's also a new-to-me, and much later, road-to-Damascus moment where she was in serious debt. How many times can she realize she needs to change her relationship to money in one lifetime?

Additionally, she fudges other facts about her personal life. She seems willing to tell a tale of her father's death a couple of different ways. And she's very touchy about the question of how out she was until recently, despite using careful wording like "the person I was dating" in her books and only naming her partner by initials at her Emmy ceremony.