The Wall Street Journal is preparing to launch an economics newsletter featuring chief economics correspondent Greg Ip.
The newsletter will be sent on Tuesdays and Thursdays. It will start next week.
Ip has been writing about the intersection of economics, markets and politics for more than 40 years. His first job was on the Vancouver Sun‘s metro desk, and to escape the night shift, he moved to business and enjoyed it. He worked at both the Financial Post and Globe and Mail in Toronto covering business and economics.
He landed his first role at the Journal in 1996 after he pitched the editor of Money and Investing a story on negative convexity in the mortgage market. The editor had no idea what he was talking about, but hired him anyway. Greg spent four years covering the late-1990s bull market, then moved to the Journal’s Washington bureau to cover the Federal Reserve.
Ip covered the Fed and the economy from 2001 to 2008, a period that began with the dot-com bust and 9/11 and ended as the financial crisis began. In July 2008, he made one of his most heroic and timely forecasts by declaring that, with Bear Stearns bailed out, the financial crisis was over and it was time to move on.
He accepted a job as U.S. economics editor at The Economist, writing articles, editorials, book reviews, and blog posts about monetary and fiscal policy, politics, and economic theory. Ip returned to the Journal in January 2015.
His 2011 book, “The Little Book of Economics: How the Economy Works in the Real World,” became a go-to economic guide for college undergraduates, self-directed investors and budding financial journalists.
