Why Keynes Is King
Lord Robert Skidelsky, emeritus professor of political economy at the University of Warwick, is the acclaimed biographer of John Maynard Keynes. He was made a life peer in 1991, and was elected fellow of the British Academy in 1994. He lives in London.
Keynes biographer Robert Skidelsky explains why after decades of being ignored the economist is back-and why we ought to keep his warnings in mind, even as the economy restarts.
Top 8 Moments From Sunday Talk Shows
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Cokie Roberts says Roman Polanski should be taken out and shot, Lindsey Graham blasts Glenn Beck (figuratively) and Rachel Maddow has some choice words for Sarah Palin's ghostwriter. That and more in our weekly roundup.
5 People Who Guessed Wrong on the Economy
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A year after the fall of Lehman Brothers and the economic collapse, The Daily Beast calls out five big names who misread the nation's financial health-and the one who actually had it right.
The Meltdown's 10 Biggest Losers
Allan Dodds Frank is a business investigative correspondent who specializes in white collar crime. He also is President of the Overseas Press Club of America, one of the many journalism organizations that protests the arrests of journalists abroad and repression of freedom of speech.
The whole country lost out when the U.S. economy fell off a cliff a year ago, but who are the 10 with the most egg on their faces or blood on their hands? VIEW OUR ROGUES GALLERY.
Position: Federal Reserve chairman (1987-2006) Sin: Sowed the seeds of market excess. The well-burnished legacy of Greenspan, the oracle of t...
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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