Robert Lenzner

Robert Lenzner

Robert Lenzner has been senior editor, national editor and contributing editor of Forbes Media for the past 22 years. His blog, “The Croesus Chronicles,” is about the disparity in wealth, Wall Street, public policy controversies at the Federal Reserve and the financial world. Prior to Forbes, Lenzner was New York correspondent for The Boston Globe and Wall Street correspondent for the Economist. He wrote a best-selling biography of billionaire oilman, J. Paul Getty, The Great Getty. He has also written for the Financial Times, Barron’s and Vanity Fair. At the Shorenstein Center, he researched the media coverage of Wall Street.

Robert Lenzner

Robert Lenzner: The Dangerous Opacity of Modern Banking

October 21, 2015 — Robert Lenzner, spring 2014 fellow and contributing editor at Forbes, reviews a new book by British economist John Kay that argues that the global finance sector is still “terribly risky,” with little changing in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Read more in The Atlantic.

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Robert Lenzner

Reporting on the 2008 Financial Crisis, and the Next One

A new paper by Robert Lenzner, Spring 2014 Fellow and contributor to Forbes Media, examines why the media failed to detect the warning signs of the 2008 financial crisis – and how it can avoid missing them the next time around. Based on decades of experience as a financial reporter, and interviews with key figures including

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Robert Lenzner

Robert Lenzner: The Dangerous Opacity of Modern Banking

October 21, 2015 — Robert Lenzner, spring 2014 fellow and contributing editor at Forbes, reviews a new book by British economist John Kay that argues that the global finance sector is still “terribly risky,” with little changing in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Read more in The Atlantic.

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Robert Lenzner

Reporting on the 2008 Financial Crisis, and the Next One

A new paper by Robert Lenzner, Spring 2014 Fellow and contributor to Forbes Media, examines why the media failed to detect the warning signs of the 2008 financial crisis – and how it can avoid missing them the next time around. Based on decades of experience as a financial reporter, and interviews with key figures including

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