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The Fiscal Times Columnists

  • BRUCE BARTLETT previously wrote for Forbes and Creators Syndicate. With a focus on politics and economics, his work is informed by years in government, including as staff director of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress and senior policy analyst in the Reagan White House. He is the author of seven books.
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  • Jon Friedman
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  • Merrill Goozner spent 25 years as a foreign correspondent, economics writer and investigative business reporter for the Chicago Tribune and other publications. He is the author of the 2004 book, The $800 Million Pill: The Truth Behind the Cost of New Drugs.
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  • SUZANNE McGEE

    Suzanne McGee spent more than 13 years as a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal in Toronto, New York, and London. After leaving the Journal in 2002, she became a freelance contributor to more than a dozen business publications, including Barron's, The Financial Times, Institutional Investor, and INC. …

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  • EDWARD MORRISSEY

    has been providing political analysis as a blogger, columnist, and radio host since 2003. He now writes at Hot Air as senior editor and correspondent and also hosts a daily online talk show. His radio show is on Minnesota’s AM 1280 The Patriot every Saturday afternoon.

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  • LIZ PEEK spent over 20 years on Wall Street, most of them as a top-ranked research analyst, and managed Wertheim & Company's entrance into international research and the market for U.S. equities in Japan. She has written for Trends, FoxNews.com and other publications.
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  • YUVAL ROSENBERG

    Yuval Rosenberg is a journalist based in New York. A former editor at WNYC.org, Fortune.com and Newsweek.com, he now covers business, the economy, technology, and Wall Street. His writing has appeared in publications including BusinessWeek, CNNMoney.com, Fast Company, Fortune, Newsweek, and more.…

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  • PATRICK SMITH has been a correspondent, commentator, editor, and critic for more than thirty years, primarily for the International Herald Tribune and The New Yorker. He is now writing his fifth book and also lectures in journalism and media studies.
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  • Mark Thoma

    is a macroeconomist and time-series econometrician at the University of Oregon. His research focuses on how monetary policy affects the economy, and he has also worked on political business cycle models. Mark is currently a fellow at The Century Foundation.

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IRS Employees Getting $70M in Bonuses

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Heritage: Rising Debt Will Spike Interest Rates

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The One Issue That Unites the U.S. and China

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