Acknowledgments
As a journalist, I’ve written and edited a cornucopia of stories about finance. The topic always has fascinated me. During the financial crisis, it was like having a ringside seat at the Apocalypse, at once thrilling and scary. In the aftermath, the task of making sense of the rubble was a daunting challenge. Throughout my career, I have had the good luck to work with many astute business and editorial minds.
I want to thank my agent, Cynthia Manson, for urging me to write this book about the investing arena. She had shepherded my mystery novels through to publication.
My superiors at the Wall Street Journal, Nikhil Deogun, Ken Brown, and Neal Templin, gave me guidance and encouragement from the outset. Another colleague at the paper, Jason Zweig, was excellent at pointing me in the right direction vis-à-vis Benjamin Graham and behaviorism; he is an expert on both topics.
Bill Baldwin, my boss at Forbes magazine, and Dave Wallace and the late Chris Welles, my editors at BusinessWeek, were key influences in shaping my financial thinking. So were the superb columnists I edited at Forbes, including Gary Shilling, John Rogers, Lisa Hess, Jim Grant, Ken Fisher, David Dreman, Marilyn Cohen, and Laszlo Birinyi and his intrepid research director, Jeff Rubin.
I want to thank Steve Shepard (former head of BW) and Steve Forbes for running two world-class magazines that allowed me to hone my craft, and for being great guys.
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