
From 2001 through most of 2002, I was a senior writer covering business and economics from London for the European edition of Time. Prior to becoming a journalist, I was an analyst at Morningstar, the mutual-funds research service in Chicago. I grew up in that neck of the woods, in Aurora, and went to college downstate at Illinois. I think of myself as an incurable, bred-in-the-bone Midwesterner. Naturally, I live in Brooklyn.