I just got back from a trip to China where President Obama is trying to manage the ever-deepening economic relationship between the two countries. As always, I was struck by the contrast and complexity. Rich Chinese are spending wildly i...
Frank Langfitt is a business correspondent for NPR. He’s just back from nearly three weeks reporting in mainland China and Taiwan. Langfitt also covered the 2008 Beijing Olympics, where he shared in an Edward R. Murrow Award for Sports Reporting. Previously, he was the Baltimore Sun’s Beijing bureau chief from 1997 to 2002.
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Nomi Prins is author of It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bonuses, Bailouts, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street (Wiley, September, 2009). Before becoming a journalist, she worked on Wall Street as a managing director at Goldman Sachs, and running the international analytics group at Bear Stearns in London.
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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.
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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.
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