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Have We Turned the Corner?
Bank profits are up, job numbers are down, and the market is erratic-is the economy any closer to a rebound? Six smart takes from business leaders and Nobel laureates.
Interview With Edmund Phelps
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To help cut through the cacophony of positive and negative economic reports this month, we turned to a Nobel laureate. Edmund Phelps, professor of political economy at Columbia University and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize, talks to The Daily Beast about the limits of economic knowledge, the long path to recovery, and why Singapore is outdoing America in its policy response.
John Talks Joe
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.
Half a Victory
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.
Murder or Miscarriage?
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.
Why America Must Learn to Bow
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.
