Left Business Observer
| Douglas Francis Henwood | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 7, 1952 Teaneck, New Jersey, USA |
| Education |
Yale University University of Virginia |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Known for | Economic and cultural analysis |
| Notable work | Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom |
| Spouse(s) | Liza Featherstone |
| Website | lbo-news |
Doug Henwood (born December 7, 1952) is an American journalist, economic analyst, and financial trader who writes frequently about economic affairs. He publishes a newsletter, Left Business Observer, that analyzes economics and politics from a left-wing perspective, is co-owner and co-editor, along with Phillipa Dunne, of The Liscio Report, an independent newsletter focusing on macroeconomic analysis, and is a contributing editor at The Nation.
Henwood was born to Harold and Victorine Henwood in Teaneck, New Jersey and grew up in Westwood. He received a B.A. in English from Yale University in 1975. As a youth Henwood was acquainted with Marxism, but for a period late in high school into his early years at Yale, he identified as a conservative, briefly joining the Party of the Right:
Sometime late in high school, I fell under the spell of Milton Friedman and Bill Buckley, and about the first thing I did when I got to college was join the Party of the Right (POR).
After college Henwood worked as secretary to the chairperson of a small Wall Street brokerage firm headed by a former Bell Labs physicist and which used quantitative analysis techniques in the mid-1970s predating their later flood of adoption on the Street.
From 1976 to 1979 Henwood did graduate work in English at the University of Virginia, concentrating on British and American poetry and on critical theory, but he left before obtaining his doctorate. He then worked for two years as a copywriter and assistant to a medical publisher in New York.
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