Occupation Writer Spouse Liza Featherstone Role Journalist | Name Doug Henwood Website lbo-news.com | |
Born December 7, 1952 (age 71) ( 1952-12-07 ) Teaneck, New Jersey, USA Known for Economic and cultural analysis Notable work Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom Books Wall Street: How it Works and for Whom, After the New Economy, Atlas des Etats-Unis d'Amerique Education University of Virginia, Yale University | ||
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Doug Henwood (born December 7, 1952) is an American journalist, economic analyst, and financial trader who writes frequently about economic affairs. He publishes a newsletter, Left Business Observer, that analyzes economics and politics from a left-wing perspective, is co-owner and co-editor, along with Phillipa Dunne, of The Liscio Report, an independent newsletter focusing on macroeconomic analysis, and is a contributing editor at The Nation.
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- Early years
- Writing
- Radio and other media
- Family
- Books
- References
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Early years
Henwood was born to Harold and Victorine Henwood in Teaneck, New Jersey and grew up in Westwood. He received a B.A. in English from Yale University in 1975. As a youth Henwood was acquainted with Marxism, but for a period late in high school into his early years at Yale, he identified as a conservative, briefly joining the Party of the Right:
Sometime late in high school, I fell under the spell of Milton Friedman and Bill Buckley, and about the first thing I did when I got to college was join the Party of the Right (POR).
After college Henwood worked as secretary to the chairperson of a small Wall Street brokerage firm headed by a former Bell Labs physicist and which used quantitative analysis techniques in the mid-1970s predating their later flood of adoption on the Street.
From 1976 to 1979 Henwood did graduate work in English at the University of Virginia, concentrating on British and American poetry and on critical theory, but he left before obtaining his doctorate. He then worked for two years as a copywriter and assistant to a medical publisher in New York.
Writing
In September 1986 Henwood launched Left Business Observer (LBO) (ISSN 1042-0134). Topics to which he has devoted coverage include:
In 1992 Henwood worked with John Liscio on The Liscio Report on the Economy, a financial advisory agency that publishes proprietary research. The newsletter is widely followed in the investment community. In 2000, after Liscio's death, Henwood and Phillipa Dunne, a business partner, inherited The Liscio Report and continue to publish the newsletter using the research techniques pioneered by their mentor.
Henwood has written four books. His first, The State of the USA Atlas (1994), is a social atlas of the U.S. in the Pluto atlas series. This was followed in 1997 by Wall Street (Verso Books), in which Henwood described the workings of high finance, and then by After the New Economy (The New Press, 2003), an analysis of the 1990s boom and bust. Henwood's most recent book is My Turn: Hillary Clinton Targets the Presidency (Seven Stories Press, 2016).
His writing has also appeared in The Nation, Harper's Magazine, Grand Street, Village Voice, Newsday, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and Extra!. He is a contributor editor at The Nation. He has been quoted or cited in a range of media including The Asia Times, The New York Times, and The Times of London.
Radio and other media
Henwood began hosting Behind the News in 1996. It is a weekly radio show and podcast produced at KPFA and, formerly, WBAI. Henwood had been a regular contributor to Samori Marksman's show, starting in 1989. Behind the News features interviews with activists, intellectuals and academics, preceded by a summary of recent economic headlines. Notable former guests include Noam Chomsky, James K. Galbraith, Christopher Hitchens, Lewis H. Lapham, George McGovern, Joseph Stiglitz, Gore Vidal, Yanis Varoufakis, and Slavoj Žižek.
On November 11, 2010 Henwood announced that he would be retiring Behind the News in its current form; instead broadcasting from another venue and on his website. This change arose from an interim producer's decision to reschedule Henwood's show to Saturdays and reduce its airtime to twice a month despite Henwood's having raised substantial funds during the network's previous fund drive, conditions that the host found unacceptable.
Henwood occasionally interviews on other radio and television programs. He appeared in Lewis H. Lapham's dramatic documentary film, The American Ruling Class.
Family
He is married to journalist Liza Featherstone. They live in Brooklyn with their son, Ivan, born 1 January 2006.
Books
Henwood authored four books and is working on a fifth.