Doug Henwood

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Douglas Francis Henwood
Born (1952-12-07) December 7, 1952 (age 71)
Teaneck, New Jersey, U.S.
Education Yale University
University of Virginia
OccupationWriter
Known forEconomic and cultural analysis
Notable workWall Street: How It Works and for Whom
Spouse Liza Featherstone
Children1
Website lbo-news.com

Doug Henwood (born December 7, 1952) is an American journalist, economic analyst, author, and financial trader who writes frequently about economic affairs. Until 2013, he published a newsletter, Left Business Observer, that analyzed economics and politics from a left-wing perspective. Henwood and Phillipa Dunne co-own and co-edit The Liscio Report, a newsletter focusing on macroeconomic analysis. Henwood is a contributing editor at The Nation .

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Early life and education

Henwood was born to Harold and Victorine Henwood in Teaneck, New Jersey, and grew up in Westwood, New Jersey. As a youth, he was acquainted with Marxism, but he briefly self-identified with conservatism toward the end of high school. According to Henwood: "Sometime late in high school, I fell under the spell of Milton Friedman and Bill Buckley, and about the first thing I did when I got to college was join the Party of the Right (POR). I got tired of all the pompous rituals, and political sanity returned, bringing me back to the left from which I'd started." [1]

Henwood received a B.A. in English from Yale University in 1975. After college, he worked as secretary to the chair of a small Wall Street brokerage firm headed by a former Bell Labs physicist who used quantitative analysis techniques in the mid-1970s, predating the later widespread adoption of similar methods on Wall Street. [2]

From 1976 to 1979, Henwood pursued a doctorate in English with a focus on British and American poetry and critical theory at the University of Virginia, but left before completing his dissertation. He then worked for two years as a copywriter and assistant to a medical publisher in New York. [3]

Career

Writing

In September 1986, Henwood launched Left Business Observer (LBO) ( ISSN   1042-0134). [4] Topics he has covered include:

In 1992, Henwood worked with John Liscio on The Liscio Report on the Economy, a financial advisory agency that publishes proprietary research. The newsletter is widely followed in the investment community. In 2000, after Liscio's death, Henwood and Phillipa Dunne, a business partner, inherited The Liscio Report and continue to publish it using the research techniques Liscio pioneered. [5]

Henwood has written four books. His first, The State of the USA Atlas (1994), is a social atlas of the U.S. in the Pluto Press atlas series. This was followed in 1997 by Wall Street (Verso Books), [6] in which Henwood describes the workings of high finance, and then by After the New Economy (The New Press, 2003), an analysis of the 1990s boom and bust. Henwood's most recent book is My Turn: Hillary Clinton Targets the Presidency (Seven Stories Press, 2016).

His articles have appeared in The Nation , Harper's Magazine , Grand Street , The Village Voice , Newsday , the Los Angeles Times , The Guardian , and Extra! . He is a contributing editor at The Nation. [7]

Radio and other media

Henwood began hosting the weekly radio show and podcast Behind the News in 1996. It is produced at KPFA and, formerly, WBAI. Henwood had been a regular contributor to Samori Marksman's show starting in 1989. Behind the News features interviews with activists, intellectuals, and academics, preceded by a summary of recent economic headlines. [8] Notable guests include Noam Chomsky, James K. Galbraith, Christopher Hitchens, Lewis H. Lapham, George McGovern, Joseph Stiglitz, Gore Vidal, Yanis Varoufakis, and Slavoj Žižek. [9]

On November 11, 2010, Henwood announced that his retirement from Behind the News in its current form, instead broadcasting from another venue and on his website. This change arose from an interim producer's decision to reschedule Henwood's show to Saturdays and reduce its airtime to twice a month despite Henwood's having raised substantial funds during the network's previous fund drive, conditions that Henwood found unacceptable. [10]

Henwood occasionally interviews on other radio and television programs. He appeared in Lapham's dramatic documentary film The American Ruling Class .

Personal life

Henwood is married to journalist Liza Featherstone; they live in Brooklyn with their son. [11] He is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. [12]

Books

Henwood has written four books and is working on a fifth. [13]

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References

  1. ↑ Henwood, Doug (February 7, 2003). "Partying on the Right" . The Nation. Retrieved 2012-01-07.
  2. ↑ Henwood, Doug (1997). Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom . New York: Verso. ISBN   978-0860914952.
  3. ↑ Henwood, Doug. "Henwood bio". Left Business Observer. Retrieved 2014-05-08.
  4. ↑ "About LBO". Left Business Observer. 2001. Retrieved 2014-05-08.
  5. ↑ "About Us". The Liscio Report on the Economy. TLR Publishing. 2007. Archived from the original on 2004-01-03. Retrieved 2014-05-08.
  6. ↑ Fox, Justin (2012-08-03). "The Wall Street Book Everyone Should Read". Harvard Business Review. ISSN   0017-8012 . Retrieved 2024-04-18.
  7. ↑ "Doug Henwood". Authors. The Nation. 2 April 2010. Retrieved 2014-05-08.
  8. ↑ "Behind the News with Doug Henwood". KPFA 94.1 FM Berkeley. Archived from the original on 2009-01-20. Retrieved 2014-05-08.
  9. ↑ "Behind the News: Doug Henwood's radio archives". Left Business Observer. Retrieved 2014-05-08.
  10. ↑ Henwood, Doug (Nov 11, 2010). "My farewell to Thursdays at 5". LBO News from Doug Henwood. Retrieved 2014-05-08.
  11. ↑ Henwood, Doug (September 23, 2011). "Visiting the occupiers of Wall Street". LBO News.
  12. ↑ "Open Letter to US Congressional Representatives marking our opposition to the US Innovation and Competition Act (USICA)/ COMPETES Act". DSA International Committee. Retrieved 2022-06-03.
  13. ↑ "Book info". Left Business Observer. Retrieved 2014-05-08.
  14. ↑ "Wall Street" . Retrieved 2023-03-23.
  15. ↑ "My Turn". Steven Stories Press. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
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