FAREED’S BRIEFING BOOK 03-21-2010
PANEL ON ISRAEL
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 New York Daily News and he is co-founder, chairman of the board, and director of Boston Properties Inc.
Zuckerman was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 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 Harvard Law School and went on to teach at Harvard Business School for nine years. He has also taught at Yale University.
Zuckerman spent seven years at the real estate firm Cabot, Cabot & Forbes. In 1980, he purchased the literary magazine The Atlantic 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 Jerusalem
Zuckerman serves on the Board of Trustees of several educational and private institutions such as the Aspen Institute, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York University, 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 Barack Obama 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 The New York Times 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
MENTIONED ON THE SHOW:
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