Joe Nocera is a senior editor and writer at The Free Press and one of America’s most accomplished journalists. Joe’s been a columnist for The New York Times, Bloomberg, Esquire, and GQ; editorial director of Fortune; and a contributor to Newsweek, Texas Monthly, and The Washington Monthly. His reporting and commentary have earned him three Gerald Loeb Awards and three John Hancock Awards for excellence in business, financial, and economic journalism. In 2007, he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for commentary.
Joe is also the author or co-author of books that examine the intersection of money, power, and institutions. In 1994, Joe wrote *A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class. *It won the 1995 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. In 2010, he teamed up with Bethany McLean to write All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis. Their book examined the causes and consequences of the Great Financial Crisis. In 2016, Joe co-authored, with Ben Strauss, Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA, which won the 2017 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. His latest book, published in 2023, is *The Big Fail: What the Pandemic Revealed About Who America Protects and Who It Leaves Behind. *This book, also co-authored with McLean, examines our nation’s highly troubled response to COVID-19.
Joe also wrote and hostedThe Shrink Next Door (2019–2021), a podcast that exposed the awful story of a psychotherapist who manipulated and exploited one of his patients for decades. The shrink was Joe’s neighor and the story became a television miniseries.
I’m delighted to share my conversation with Joe. Talking with Joe is extraordinarily refreshing. He tells it exactly as it is.
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