Daily Briefing - Monday, November 15, 2010

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Robert Kuttner is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect, and is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the think tank Demos. He is a columnist for the Boston Globe, and has written for the Washington Post, The New Republic, and for 20 years, he wrote a column for Business Week. Mr. Kuttner was formerly an assistant to the legendary I.F. Stone, a chief investigator for the Senate Banking Committee. His books include Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets and Obama's Challenge: America's Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency. His new book is A Presidency in Peril: The Inside Story of Obama's Promise, Wall Street's Power, and the Struggle to Control our Economic Future and his new piece at the Huffington Post is “What Planet are the Deficit Hawks Living On?”

William Cohan is a contributing editor at Fortune and a writer for Vanity Fair and The New York Times. His acclaimed book, House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street, details the last days of Bear Stearns & Co. He began his career as an investigative reporter in Raleigh, North Carolina and then went on to work on Wall Street for over a decade and a half, both at Lazard Frères and JP Morgan Chase. In 2007 he published, The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. He is currently working on a book about Goldman Sachs.

Allan A. Ryan, Jr. is an attorney and professor at Harvard University, Harvard Business School, and teaches at Boston College Law School. He served as a law clerk to Justice Byron R. White of the Supreme Court and was Assistant to the Solicitor General, representing the U.S. government in the Supreme Court. In 1980, he was appointed the first Director of the Office of Special Investigations, U.S. Department of Justice. In this position, he was responsible for the investigation and prosecution of Nazi war criminals in the United States. He has served as a consultant on genocide prosecutions to the government of Rwanda and participated in several international conferences on how governments should face the crimes of predecessor regimes. HIs book was: Quiet Neighbors: Prosecuting Nazi War Criminals in America.