Merryle Stanley Rukeyser (January 3, 1897 – December 21, 1988), was an American journalist and educator in finance and economics.

Rukeyser was born to a Jewish[1] family in Chicago and grew up in Manhattan.

By 1930 he became an associate professor at the Columbia School of Journalism and was writing the syndicated financial column "Everybody's Money", appearing daily in 110 newspapers.

In the 1970s and early 1980s, he was a frequent guest analyst on his son Louis' TV show Wall Street Week.

[2] Merryle Rukeyser died at White Plains Hospital on December 21, 1988.