Daniel Gross is an American journalist and author, a former Senior Editor at Newsweek

Newsweek

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, and since September 2010 employed at Yahoo! Finance

Yahoo! Finance

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. A native of East Lansing, Michigan

East Lansing, Michigan

East Lansing is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. The city is located directly east of Lansing, Michigan, the state's capital. Most of the city is within Ingham County, though a small portion lies in Clinton County. The population was 48,579 at the time of the 2010 census, an increase from...

, Gross graduated from East Lansing High School

East Lansing High School

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 (1985) and Cornell University

Cornell University

Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

 (B.A., 1989), and holds an A.M. (1991) in American history from Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

.

Career

From 2007 through August 2010, Gross was a senior editor at Newsweek

Newsweek

Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...

, where he wrote the "Contrary Indicator" column.

"Before joining Newsweek in the spring of 2007, Mr. Gross wrote the "Economic View" column in the New York Times, was a contributing writer to New York

New York (magazine)

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, and contributed regularly to magazines such as Fortune

Fortune (magazine)

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and Wired

Wired (magazine)

Wired is a full-color monthly American magazine and on-line periodical, published since January 1993, that reports on how new and developing technology affects culture, the economy, and politics...

. From 1998-2007, Gross served as the editor of STERNBusiness, a semi-annual academic magazine on economics and management published by the New York University

New York University

New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...

 Stern School of Business".

For Newsweek Gross wrote the weekly "Contrary Indicator" column. He also wrote a twice-weekly "Moneybox" column for Slate

Slate (magazine)

Slate is a US-based English language online current affairs and culture magazine created in 1996 by former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley, initially under the ownership of Microsoft as part of MSN. On 21 December 2004 it was purchased by the Washington Post Company...

, which also appeared on Newsweek.com.

In September 2010 it was announced that Gross was joining the staff of Yahoo! Finance where he writes a regular column. In an early Yahoo Finance column, Gross was identified as "economics editor and columnist".

Books

• Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time (Wiley, 1997) (ISBN 0471196533)
• Bull Run: Wall Street, the Democrats, and the New Politics of Personal Finance (PublicAffairs, 2000) (ISBN 1891620290)
• Generations of Corning: 150 Years in the Life of a Global Corporation, 1851-2001 (Oxford University Press, 2001), co-authored with Davis Dyer (ISBN 0195140958)
• Pop!: Why Bubbles Are Great For The Economy (Collins, 2007) (ISBN 0061151548)
• Dumb Money: How our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation (Free Press, 2009). (ISBN 1439159874)

External links

• Video debates and discussions involving Gross on Bloggingheads.tv
  Bloggingheads.tv
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• Gross on Colbert Report, April 28, 2009
• Daniel Gross, "Davos Shabbos: Friday-night dinner with the machers in Switzerland," Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life, 5 February, 2010.