Professional/Personal Overview
Explaining economics and finance to a wider public is my forte after a career covering business, banking, politics and government regulation.
Work Info
Expertise
Writer
25 Years
Specialty
Business (general)
25 Years
Finance
25 Years
Politics
25 Years
Total Media Industry Experience
25 Years
Media Client List (# assignments
last 2 yrs)
MarketWatch (11+), EnergyBiz (11+), Secured Lender (6-10), Reader's Digest (1-2), Medscape from WebMD (1-2)
Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
Civiello Communications (11+), NEA Member Benefits (11+), OMFIF (11+), Warner Communications (6-10), University of Chicago (3-5), John Wiley & Sons (1-2)
Other Work History
Bloomberg (bureau chief, national editor, managing editor); Dow Jones (bureau chief, desk editor); AOL (content director); Institutional Investor (bureau chief); International Herald Tribune (page editor).
Computer Skills
Word, Excel, Windows XP, Quark Express
Equipment
Laptop, digital camera, audio recorder, cellphone
Foreign Language Skills
Fluent French and German
Awards
Overseas Press Club Morton Frank Award for business or economic reporting from abroad in magazines or books, 1987, Atlantik Bruecke Study Trip for American Journalists 2009
Other
Master's degree from Columbia University, Fulbright Scholar to Germany,
Freelancer Availability
I freelance full-time. I am willing to travel anywhere. I have a driver's license. I have access to a car.
Work Samples
(USA Today , 5/7/2013)
Since he took over the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in 2009, Gary Gensler has fought almost singlehandedly to rein in bank speculation and now faces an uphill challenge in implementing the Dodd-Frank financial reform.
(USA Today , 4/30/2013)
A new Senate bill seeks to impose punitive capital requirements on big banks. It won't pass but it may help rein in the banks.
(USA Today , 4/23/2013)
Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs launched a scathing attack on Wall Street, describing the moral environment as "pathological" in the latest effort by a distinguished economist to warn about bank behavior.
(USA Today , 4/16/2013)
An attempt by regulators to compensate homeowners who were foreclosed on by mistake resulted in a debacle that got victims pennies on the dollar but created a windfall for Beltway Bandits.
(USA Today , 4/3/2013)
The debate over too big to fail has come back after disclosures about JP Morgan's "London whale" trades.
Darrell Delamaide's Political Capital
(MarketWatch , 5/8/2013)
Money manager Warren Mosler has a plan to fix the euro, calling for higher deficits and a more active role for the European Central Bank.
(MarketWatch , 5/2/2013)
Nominating North Carolina Democrat Mel Watt to head the regulatory agency overseeing Fannie and Freddie is the first step to restructuring the government's role in housing finance.
(MarketWatch , 5/1/2013)
The European left is starting to find its voice to protest the relentless focus on austerity in Europe.
(MarketWatch , 4/25/2013)
Montana Sen. Max Baucus, who said he will retire after next year, is the poster child for how special interests, not voters, are the true constituents in Congress.
(MarketWatch , 4/5/2013)
President Obama is pursuing "grand bargain" trade deals across the Atlantic and Pacific under the guise of boosting exports and creating jobs but consumer groups worry they are just furthering corporate interests.
Other
(NEA Member Benefits , 4/30/2013)
New smart phone and tablet apps are coming out each month to make traveling easier and more rewarding.
(NEA Member Benefits , 3/29/2013)
Whatever precautions you're taking against ID theft, you need to know about these new scams as fraudsters work to stay ahead of the game.
(NEA Member Benefits , 3/1/2013)
The good news is we didn't go over the fiscal cliff, but it's still hard to keep track of tax breaks that might apply to you.
(CFSP Research Brief , 11/23/2012)
Studies by the Consortium on Financial Systems and Poverty at the University of Chicago document the impact of Kenya's innovative mobile phone banking network.
(Warner Communications , 1/13/2012)
Medical technology is the latest industrial sector to profit from the trend to open innovation.
International monetary policy
(OMFIF Bulletin , 10/30/2012)
Fed officials spent much of October defending new round of quantitative easing at home and abroad. See story p. 18.
(OMFIF Bulletin , 10/30/2012)
The watershed of a U.S. presidential election marks little change in the role of the dollar as the world's main reserve and trading currency. If anything is to change in the next four years, it will be up to other countries, not the winner of the U.S. election. See story p. 1 and 8.
My Blogs
(Blog , 11/6/2012)
My blog on books and reading, including my cross-posts at The Washington Independent Review of Books.
(Blog , 11/5/2012)
My blog about food and wine, including restaurant reviews, recipes and travels.
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June 4, 2013 | San Francisco
