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Roger Lowenstein

Roger Lowenstein is an American financial journalist and author who writes on investing, Wall Street, and economic history. A former Wall Street Journal reporter, he is best known for Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist and When Genius Failed, books that broadened public understanding of finance and market crises.

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LTCM started out with three truly fabulous years
-NOVA: Trillion Dollar Bet
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Sure. It was virtually nil
-EconoFact Chats: Abraham Lincoln and the Role of Government in the Economy
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It was the Dream Team
-Financial Sense Newshour: When Genius Failed
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All other industrialized nations in the world had a central bank, but we did not
-What You Don’t Know About the Federal Reserve
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The idea of the central bank still was taboo
-The Politics of the Fed: Past, Present, and Future
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You have to take what the market gives you and not be greedy
-Bogleheads on Investing — Episode 28
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Wall Street messed up big time
-Roger Lowenstein Takes Mr. Media to ‘The End of Wall Street’

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"Roger Lowenstein is one of the country’s best-known financial writers"

Levy Economics Institute

"In Ways and Means, Roger Lowenstein gives a gripping account of Lincoln’s financial war against the South"

Liaquat Ahamed

"In the flood of new books about the financial crisis, Roger Lowenstein’s is a standout"

Barron's

"In the hands of a master storyteller like Roger Lowenstein, it is also a page-turner"

Alan S. Blinder

"Roger Lowenstein tells, vividly and compellingly, the remarkable tale behind the Federal Reserve Act"

Robert Rubin

"Roger Lowenstein, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, has no ax to grind, and his history of the Fed’s origins makes for a riveting read"

George Selgin

"In this riveting narrative, Roger Lowenstein has delivered an outstanding contribution to the rich literature on the Civil War"

Ron Chernow

"Think of Roger Lowenstein’s The End of Wall Street as a tuition-free class in 21st-century U.S. macroeconomics"

USA Today

"The latest, and perhaps the most accessible and even-handed, is Roger Lowenstein’s The End of Wall Street"

Washington Post

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