FAREED’S BRIEFING BOOK 03-21-2010

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Mortimer Zuckerman

Mortimer Zuckerman is a magazine editor, publisher, and real estate billionaire. He is currently the Editor-in- Chief of U.S. News & World Report, publisher and owner of the and he is co-founder, chairman of the board, and director of Boston Properties Inc.

Zuckerman was born in , , . He entered McGill University at the age of sixteen and after receiving his B.A. in 1957, he went on to obtain an LL.B. from McGill in 1961. Zuckerman then attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, earning an M.B.A. from Wharton. After Wharton, Mort Zuckerman received an LL.M. from and went on to teach at for nine years. He has also taught at .

Zuckerman spent seven years at the real estate firm Cabot, Cabot & Forbes. In 1980, he purchased the literary magazine Monthly, where he was Chairman for almost twenty years. In addition to his publishing and real-estate interests, Zuckerman is also an active supporter of Israeli and international Jewish causes. He chaired the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and celebrated the State of Israel’s 60th anniversary with President Bush in

Zuckerman serves on the Board of Trustees of several educational and private institutions such as the , Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, , and the Hole in the Wall Gang Fund. He is a member of the JPMorgan's National Advisory Board, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

ARTICLES: "The Economy Is Even Worse Than You Think" Wall Street Journal (summary HERE for those without a subscription)

"Intelligent Investing Briefing Book" Forbes.com

Mort Zuckerman opinion pieces US News & World Report

Obama's Healthcare Focus Is Misguided US News & World Report

Political Leaders Must Deal With the National Debt or Future Generations Will Pay US News & World Report

Obama Needs to Focus on Housing, Not Health Reform US News & World Report

President Obama's Dangerous Game of Politics US News & World Report

Who to Blame for the Financial Crisis US News & World Report

The Incredible Deflation of US News & World Report

Mort Zuckerman: How to Get Americans Working Again US News & World Report

Martin Indyk

Martin S. Indyk is vice president and director of the Foreign Policy Program at The Brookings Institution. Previously, Indyk was the founding director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings and a Brookings senior fellow. He is also a former U.S. ambassador to Israel.

Indyk was U.S. ambassador to Israel under Clinton twice: from 1995-1997 and from 2000-2001. Indyk served as special assistant to President Clinton and senior director for Near East and South Asian Affairs at the National Security Council (1993-1995) and as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs in the U.S. Department of State (1997-2000).

Before entering the U.S. government, Indyk was founding executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy for eight years. He currently serves as Chairman of the International Council of the New Israel Fund and on the boards of the Lowy Institute for International Policy (Australia) and the Institute for National Security Studies (Israel). Indyk received a B.Econ. from Sydney University and a Ph.D. from the Australian National University.

His most recent book is Innocent Abroad : An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East.

Read his biography from the Brookings Institute here

The Truth About the New Israel Fund Australian Jewish Democratic Society

Articles on Martin Indyk from here

MICHAEL LEWIS

Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis is a bestselling author and journalist. He is currently a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, a columnist for Bloomberg, Slate, Vanity Fair, and a visiting fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.

When he was 24 years old, Lewis became a bond salesman at Salomon Brothers in London, a now defunct investment bank where the mortgage-backed security was born. He chronicled his experiences working as a banker in a best-selling book called Liar’s Poker and has written a number of other great books including his latest, The Big Short.

The No-Stats All-Star New York Times

The End of the Financial World as We Know It New York Times

How to Repair a Broken Financial World New York Times

The Changing Room New York Times

Serfs of the Turf New York Times

Baseball’s Losing Formula New York Times

The Kick Is Up and It's . . . A Career Killer New York Times

The Kick Is Up and It’s ... A Career Killer New York Times

In Nature’s Casino New York Times

Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity ...

Michael Lewis | The Big Money

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Key Details Released On Dodd's Financial Reform Bill Huffington Post

Dodd financial reform bill goes too far Christian Science Monitor

Financial reform bill headed to party-line vote Washington Post

Dodd Bill May Allow for 'Backdoor Bailouts,' Bair Says - Wall Street Journal