Daniel Gross is one of the most wide­ly-read writ­ers on finance, eco­nom­ics, and busi­ness his­to­ry. Over the past three decades, he has report­ed from more than thir­ty coun­tries, cov­er­ing every­thing from the dot­com boom to the glob­al finan­cial cri­sis and the Great Reces­sion of 2008 – 2009.

Gross worked as a reporter at The New Repub­lic and Bloomberg News, wrote the Eco­nom­ic View col­umn in The New York Times, and served as Slate’s Mon­ey­box colum­nist. At Newsweek, where he was a colum­nist and cor­re­spon­dent, he authored sev­en cov­er sto­ries. He is a best­selling author of eight books, includ­ing Forbes Great­est Busi­ness Sto­ries of All Time; Gen­er­a­tions of Corn­ing; Dumb Mon­ey: How America’s Great­est Finan­cial Minds Bank­rupt­ed the Nation; and Bet­ter, Stronger, Faster: The Myth of Amer­i­can Decline and the Rise of a New Economy.

Gross was edu­cat­ed at Cor­nell Uni­ver­si­ty and holds an M.A. in Amer­i­can his­to­ry from Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty. His great-grand­par­ents immi­grat­ed to the Unit­ed States from Alep­po and Damascus.