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Annie Lowrey
Annie Lowrey is a staff writer at The Atlantic who turns the dry machinery of economic policy into stories people actually read. She coined the phrase the time tax to name the hours Americans waste navigating government paperwork, wrote Give People Money to make the case for a universal basic income, and has spent more than a decade explaining how money moves through people's lives. Her work spans The Atlantic, The New York Times, Slate, and Foreign Policy.
Binyamin Appelbaum
Binyamin Appelbaum is the lead writer on business and economics for The New York Times editorial board, and the author of 'The Economists' Hour,' a history of how economists came to reshape American policy. Before joining the editorial board in 2019, he spent nearly a decade as a Washington correspondent covering the Federal Reserve and economic policy in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. His subprime-lending investigation at The Charlotte Observer won a George Polk Award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Brink Lindsey
Brink Lindsey is a writer and policy thinker who spent decades inside Washington's free-market establishment - vice president for research at the Cato Institute, a leading free-trade voice - before publicly reinventing himself as a 'recovering libertarian.' Now senior vice president at the Niskanen Center, he argues that capable government and robust social insurance are not enemies of markets but their necessary complement. His writing, including The Captured Economy (with Steven Teles) and The Permanent Problem, wrestles with a single paradox: rich countries have never had more material plenty, and people have never felt less satisfied. He explores it weekly from a base in northeastern Thailand on his Substack, The Permanent Problem.
Gordon Gray
Gordon Gray is a Washington economic policy hand who turned a decade of budget-table fluency into his own shop. He launched the nonpartisan Pinpoint Policy Institute as its executive director after more than ten years as vice president for economic policy at the American Action Forum. A veteran of Senate offices and two presidential-cycle campaigns, he translates federal budgets, tax law, and macroeconomic forecasts into testimony before Congress and commentary across The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg TV, CNBC, NPR, and Fox Business.
Jim Tankersley
Jim Tankersley is the New York Times Berlin bureau chief and a longtime economics journalist who spent 17 years dissecting Washington's tax fights and the fortunes of the American middle class. A small-town Oregon kid turned Stanford grad, he broke major scoops on the Biden economic agenda, won the Livingston Award, was part of a Pulitzer-finalist team, and wrote 'The Riches of This Land,' a narrative reckoning with what happened to the postwar middle-class dream. In 2025 he traded the West Wing for Germany.
Neil Irwin
Neil Irwin is the chief economic correspondent at Axios and lead author of the daily Axios Macro newsletter, decoding the Federal Reserve, inflation, and global markets for hundreds of thousands of readers. A former senior economic correspondent at The New York Times and a 13-year veteran of The Washington Post, he wrote the New York Times bestseller The Alchemists about the central bankers who fought the 2008 financial crisis, and How to Win in a Winner-Take-All World, a guide to building a durable career in the modern economy.
Stan Veuger
Stan Veuger is a Dutch-born economist and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who studies political economy and public finance, and who became briefly famous in 2025 for co-authoring the AEI analysis that exposed a factor-of-four error at the heart of the Trump administration's reciprocal tariff formula. A Harvard PhD with a stack of unrelated degrees in Spanish literature, law, and business, he edits AEI Economic Perspectives, teaches at Harvard, and once published peer-reviewed research proving that LeBron James measurably increased the number of restaurants near his arena.