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...
Famous College Roommates
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From Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones at Harvard to Robin Williams and Christopher Reeve at Juilliard to Owen Wilson and Wes Anderson at Texas, VIEW OUR GALLERY of A-Listers who tried to make dean's list while bunking together.
As roommates at Harvard in late a€˜60s, actor Tommy Lee Jones and former Vice President Al Gore were close friends, going to parties and chasing co...
Return of the Day Trader
Lee Eisenberg’s new book is Shoptimism: Why the American Consumer Will Keep on Buying No Matter What. Excerpts and the author’s blog can be found at LeeEisenberg.com.
As the Dow creeps up, much maligned day traders are coming out of the closet again. Lee Eisenberg on his own perilous relationship with stocks-and his system to beat Buffett.
The American moment can be summed up in one word: rage. From anger over bonuses and bailouts for the corporations who wrecked the economy to frustration with rising unemployment and exploding deficits, media personalities who can harness America's simmering discontent are in high demand. Who are the players vying for the role of America's demagogue in chief?
Washington's Longest-Running Reality Show
Peter Osnos is a senior fellow for media at The Century Foundation. Osnos is the founder and editor at large of PublicAffairs Books. He is vice chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review, a former publisher at Random House, and was a correspondent and editor at the Washington Post.
Thirty years after its founding, C-SPAN may be the butt of many jokes, but the network's endurance and brilliant business model should make it worthy of praise.
The Intellectual Crash of 2009
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
A national crisis used to inspire the best in our country's cultural elite. Why, then, has the financial meltdown left our intellectuals speechless?
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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