Peter Goodman is European economics correspondent and former national economic correspondent for the New York Times. He's also Global Editor-in-Chief of the International Business Times and the author of Past Due: The End of Easy Money and the Renewal of the American Economy. Goodman is a former Executive Business Editor of the Huffington Post.
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