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Gillian Tett

Gillian Tett
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Gillian Tett

Gillian Tett oversees global coverage of the financial markets for the Financial Times, the world's leading newspaper covering finance and business. In 2007 she was awarded the Wincott prize, the premier British award for financial journalism, for her capital-markets coverage. In 2008, she was named British Business Journalist of the Year. She previously served as the newspaper's deputy head of the Lex column (an agenda-setting column on business and financial topics), Tokyo bureau chief, economic correspondent, and foreign correspondent. She speaks regularly at conferences around the world on finance and global markets. She has a PhD in social anthropology from... Read full bio

Fool's Gold will be released on April 13, 2010 in Trade Paperback
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Fool's Gold is now available in Trade Paperback
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Dancing With Debt is now available in Hardcover
May 12, 2009
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Chapter 1 from Fool's Gold
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Dancing With Debt will be released on May 12, 2009 in Hardcover
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Dancing With Debt will be released on May 12, 2008 in eBook
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Dancing With Debt will be released on May 12, 2008 in eBook
May 12, 2008
Dancing With Debt is now available in eBook
May 12, 2008

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Guardian.co.uk, January 20, 2012
...by right and left alike … the thesis is provocative, and the book is witty and highly readable." Gillian Tett in the Financial Times was impressed by Thomas Frank's study of the "resurgent right" in the US: "The crucial point about the new right dogma,...
Gulf News, January 19, 2012
...A pragmatic Democrat government has allowed the right to glorify a philosophy of ruination Reviewed by Gillian Tett -Financial Times Just over a year ago, a Gallup survey of American voters revealed a fascinating little wrinkle: Whereas Republicans...
University of Nottingham, December 8, 2011
...Karren Brady, Sarah Brown, Lorna Clarke, Kirsty Dale, Miriam Gonzalez Durantez, Anya Hindmarch MBE, Karen Mattison MBE and Gillian Tett. Sarah Brown said of the shortlist: “This year we had lots of new names and new faces on the judging list to look at...
MSNBC, November 22, 2011
...Tuesday’s “NOW with Alex Wagner” line-up : The Nation’s Katrina Vanden Heuvel, publisher Mort Zuckerman, Financial Times’ Gillian Tett; and MSNBC contributor Meghan McCain. *** Tuesday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” line-up : Andrea...
MSNBC, November 22, 2011
...polls. *** Tuesdays NOW with Alex Wagner line-up: The Nations Katrina Vanden Heuvel, publisher Mort Zuckerman, Financial Times Gillian Tett; and BC contributor Meghan McCain. *** Tuesdays Andrea Mitchell Reports line-up: Andrea Mitchell anchors from New...
New York Observer, November 14, 2011
...of digital shorts. [ The Bookseller ] Pedro Almodovar's book party. [ Variety ] Financial Times editor Gillian Tett likes prominent Occupy Wall Street participant David Graeber's Debt. [ Guardian ] David Pogue reviews the cheaper Kindles. [ NYT ]...
EconomicPrincipals.com, November 13, 2011
...Last year he took a stab at a broad audience with Debt: The First 5,000 Years .  Gillian Tett, of the Financial Times , herself trained as an anthropologist, describes it as “not just thought-provoking, but also exceedingly timely.” His main...
naked capitalism, September 18, 2011
...subject matter of The Devil’s Derivative has also been covered before and better by the Financial Times’ Gillian Tett in Fool’s Gold . Oddly, T he Devil’s Derivative ’s very long sub-title (24 words and 100 characters) – “ The Untold Story...
CJR, August 4, 2011
...2011 08:03 PM Audit Notes: Panic in the Markets By Ryan Chittum TAGS: Euro Crisis, Financial Times, Gillian Tett, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal Single Page Print Email Comments Digg Facebook Twitter Reddit StumbleUpon Delicious The Dow Jones...
FT Alphaville, June 17, 2011
...economy in two minutes flat. - On endlessly assuming mean reversion . - Debt collectors have feelings too. -  Gillian Tett on Kate Middleton’s wedding dress. - Further, further (book) reading . This entry was posted by Tracy Alloway on Friday, June...
FT Alphaville, May 11, 2011
...16:15. FT Alphaville has explored the financing and bespoke servicing role of ETFs before. The FT’s Gillian Tett has now openly likened the products to CDOs . Given that, we thought we would provide some further context to the nature of such things in...
Agora Dialogue, May 5, 2011
...and leap off the hedonic treadmill. The conference ran throughout Sunday. It ended with the F.T. ’s Gillian Tett interviewing Soros and Paul Volcker , the former Fed chairman. Fittingly enough, Volcker turned to the issue of international-monetary...