Binyamin Appelbaum

Binyamin Appelbaum is the lead writer on economics and business for The New York Times editorial board. Before joining the Editorial Board, he was a Washington correspondent for the Times covering economic policy. He previously worked for The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and The Charlotte Observer, where his reporting on subprime lending won a George Polk Award and was a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. He has covered a range of economic policy issues, with a particular focus on the Federal Reserve, economic inequality, climate change, and the housing crisis. He is the author of “The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets and the Fracture of Society,” which tells the story of how economic thinking, including faith in markets, came to dominate policymaking.