And That’s My Opinion!
Before I head to a new assignment, here are some final words on a few topics.
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Joe Nocera is an Op-Ed columnist. Before joining the Opinion pages in April 2011, he wrote the Talking Business column for The New York Times each Saturday and was a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. He joined the paper in 2005.
For more than three decades, Mr. Nocera has chronicled the world of business at magazines like Fortune, GQ, Esquire and Texas Monthly. He has won three Gerald Loeb awards, including the 2008 award for commentary, and three John Hancock awards for excellence in business journalism. A 2007 Pulitzer finalist, he has written books including “A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class,” which won the New York Public Library’s 1995 Helen Bernstein Award; “Good Guys and Bad Guys: Behind the Scenes With the Saints and Scoundrels of American Business (and Everything in Between),” and “All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis,” which he co-authored with Bethany McLean.
Mr. Nocera received a B.S. in journalism from Boston University in 1974. He lives in New York City. His column appears every Tuesday and Saturday. Read his blog.
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And That’s My Opinion!
Before I head to a new assignment, here are some final words on a few topics.
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Allegations about Valeant’s practices and its own disclosures while under pressure cause one to wonder.
The Patent Troll Smokescreen
Legislative “reform” is hurting legitimate inventors.
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Jonathan Mahler’s piece on the Osama bin Laden raid is as much about the nature of journalism as it is about the facts surrounding the event.
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Of course they can. So why won’t anti-tobacco advocates get behind them?
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The screenwriter says his new movie is not a biopic. So true. The film simply doesn’t understand its subject.
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