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John Cassidy
writer, New Yorker
John Cassidy is one of the country's leading business journalists. He has been a staff writer for *The New Yorker* since 1995, writing articles on topics such as the current economic crisis, Alan Greenspan, and the Iraqi oil industry. Previously he was Washington bureau chief, then business editor of *The Sunday Times* (London) and deputy editor of *The New York Post*. His first book, *Dot.con: How America Lost Its Mind and Money in the Internet Era*, was published in 2002.