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John Cassidy has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1995. He has written many, many articles for the magazine, on topics ranging from Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke to the Iraqi oil industry and the economics of Hollywood. He also writes a blog on The New Yorker’s Web site, entitled “” His latest book, “How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities,” was published in November, 2009, by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Cassidy is also a contributor to The New York Review of Books and a financial commentator for the BBC. He came to The New Yorker after working for newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic. He joined the Sunday Times, in London, in 1986, and served as the paper’s Washington bureau chief for three years, and then as its business editor, from 1991 to 1993. From 1993 to 1995, he was at the New York Post, where he edited the Business section and then served as the deputy editor.

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January 23, 2014
Blog: Rational Irrationality

A Vindicated Snowden Says He’d Like to Come Home

By coincidence or not, Thursday’s live chat occurred shortly after a federal watchdog declared one of the N.S.A. domestic-spying programs illegal.
January 23, 2014
Blog: Rational Irrationality

Social Mobility Hasn’t Fallen: What It Means and Doesn’t Mean

The level of U.S. economic mobility is stable, but the effects of inequality might be worse than they used to be.
January 22, 2014
Blog: Comment

The Anti-Snow-Day Mayor Makes the Right Call

Shutting down classrooms just because it’s snowing, or because other school districts have, makes no sense.
January 22, 2014
Blog: Rational Irrationality

Maybe Ezra Klein and Jeff Bezos Are Both Right

Ezra Klein’s highly publicized departure from the Washington Post might be a good thing for each side.
January 17, 2014
Blog: Rational Irrationality

Obama’s N.S.A. Strategy: Over to You, Congress

The President’s message on Friday was that practically all N.S.A. activities are necessary, but some, with Congress’s help, need tweaking.
January 16, 2014
Blog: Rational Irrationality

Obama and the N.S.A.: Why He Can’t Be Trusted

If the early reports are true, President Obama won’t dismantle a single N.S.A. program.
January 15, 2014
Blog: Rational Irrationality

Blunder Road: Springsteen Runs Over Christie

Chris Christie’s best strategy—his only strategy—is to react to the joke with humility and humor.
January 14, 2014
Blog: Rational Irrationality

How the War on Poverty Succeeded (in Four Charts)

Measuring poverty properly, as is only now being done, reveals that it has fallen pretty dramatically since the mid-nineteen-sixties.
January 13, 2014
Blog: Rational Irrationality

Chris Christie Is Down But Not Out

Even after Bridgegate, the populist governor may be the one Republican who could have mass appeal in 2016.
January 10, 2014
Blog: Rational Irrationality

Why the Jobs Report Is Probably a Throwaway

A single set of figures should be treated with caution, especially when they appear to contradict other recent reports.
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