Gretchen Morgenson is an assistant business and financial editor and columnist at the New York Times and a 2002 Pulitzer Prize-winner for her coverage of Wall Street. She is the author of Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed and Corruption Created the Worst Financial Crisis of Our Time.
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