Profile:
Full name: Gerard Baker
Area of interest: Economics, US and World Affairs
Journals/Organisation: The Wall Street Journal | The Times
Email: gerard.baker@the-times.co.uk
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Website: TimesOnline / Gerard Baker
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Networks: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/gerard-baker/7/186/59b
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Biography:
About: "Deputy editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones since the start of 2009. His responsibilities range across the full spectrum of the company’s journalism, from the daily print and online editions of the Journal to Dow Jones Newswires." - ceocouncil.wsj.com
Education: Corpus Christi College, Oxford: Philosophy, Politics and Economics, BA
Career: Worked for the Bank of England as a research analyst and in the City as an economist, joined London Weekend Television as a reaearcher and then moved to BBC as a producer in current affairs, including Panorama; moved to print journalism with the Financial Times, 1993: Tokyo correspondent; Washington Bureau Chief; joined The Times in 2004: United States Editor and Assistant Editor of The Times; joined the Wall Street Journal, 2009: deputy editor in chief
Current position/role: deputy editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones
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Viewpoints/Insight: One of the Signatories of the Statement of Principles of the Henry Jackson Society (info)
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Awards/Honours: Finalist, Gerald Loeb Award for business journalism in the field of commentary - for his writing on US economics
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The Times:
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Remit/Info: US Economy, foreign policy, politics
Section: Comment
Role: United States Editor, and an Assistant Editor of The Times
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Email: gerard.baker@the-times.co.uk
Website: TimesOnline / Gerard Baker
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Day published: varies, usually Friday
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Average length: 1000 words
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Articles:
- Not Their Finest Hour - Britain's elections ended in an anti-climax, revealing a crisis of governance - The Wall Street Journal, 8th May 2010
- Three hurdles for the new President - Things are set fair for Obama so long as he can master the economy, terrorism and Congress - 23rd January 2009
- Realistic if not soaring: President Obama's inauguration speech - 21st January 2009
- Bush wasn't evil. Just inept - History may take a sympathetic view of his ideals. But he pursued them incompetently - 16th January 2009
- My faith in the Great Moderation - Like the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, I dismissed the evidence of mortal financial damage as a flesh wound - 13th January 2009
- Wanted: a superhero to save America - Barack Obama will need help from the rest of the world for his economic rescue to work - 9th January 2009
- Just keep on trucking in the land of Acronymia - At the Fed, the combination of Zirp and QE will provide the liquidity that is a necessary but not sufficient condition of recovery - 7th January 2009
- Don't expect Obama to get tough with Israel - The President-elect has more important priorities than a radical change of direction on the Middle East - 2nd January 2009
- Moderation marks out Barack Obama's appointments - Any fears (or, in some places, hopes) that the new president would install some radical team committed to turning America sharply towards the Left have been contradicted by the facts - 24th December 2008
- It's dramatic! It's sensational! It's the Fed rescue - Quantitative easing may not sound exciting, but it is as momentous as the Gettysburg Address or the D-Day landings - 19th December 2008
- Fed throws out the rulebook - Federal Reserve dispenses with monetary policy rule book in its most dramatic effort yet to stem the global economic crisis - 17th December 2008
- A scandal straight from a Sopranos script - The foul-mouthed mumblings of the Governor of Illinois are not the background noise that Barack Obama was hoping for - 12th December 2008
- How do you tackle a confluence of crises? - It might be called a kitchen-sink approach - throwing everything you can at the problem - but nobody has a better plan - 9th December 2008
- Why Barack Obama picked a political Who's Who - The President-elect's team includes a familiar list of names, but that need not stop him being an agent of radical change - 5th December 2008
- Desperate times call for zero rates - The data seem to be getting worse, meaning that the present mildly optimistic official forecasts look increasingly vulnerable - 3rd December 2008
- What exactly will be changing when Barack Obama takes office? - As details of the next president's team of advisers seeps out it seems to be more a time of compromise and continuity - 28th November 2008
- Why is Britain not emulating the US in going for broke? - 25th November 2008
- No drama? With Hillary? Forget it - The Clintons have a knack of turning politics into their own personal stage. Obama must know that - 21st November 2008
- Only a great president will cope - From the financial crisis to Camp David sleepovers, Obama's early decisions will break some hearts - 14th November 2008
- The Child returned - and final battle was joined - An epic pilgrimage and miraculous signs were not enough to convince all doubters of the anointed one, who would soon be forced to face his demons - 11th November 2008
- Only in America - Even right-wing curmudgeons have to admit that the election of Barack Obama uplifted the spirit - 7th November 2008
- America isn't about to become liberal heaven - Yes, Americans will be voting for Obama and change. But they don't want radicalism, just competence and decency - 31st October 2008
- Inflation counts for nothing to Fed - With US interest rates as low as they have been since the Second World War, attention is shifting to other central banks - 30th October 2008
- This time, cutting rates may not be enough to ease the pain - 28th October 2008
- Flood waters recede, blaming begins - One question already exercising policymakers and their critics is whether the crisis was exacerbated by crucial policy mis-steps - 21st October 2008
- Change is here, whatever voters want - US is rejecting an incompetent government, but electing Obama marks a significant watershed - 17th October 2008
- How the old country bailed out the New World - Made in Britain. Driven in the USA. It might sound like an advertisement for the remnants of the UK car industry, but it’s a pretty good description of the proposal unveiled yesterday to bail out the American banking system - 15th October 2008
- Follow Gordon Brown again and spend out of recession - Where once he was reviled, Britain's Prime Minister is now seen as the world's saviour. But more difficult times lie ahead - 14th October 2008
- Making his own weather in the storm - The banking crisis was a lucky break for Obama. But he has an ability to make the most of it - 10th October 2008
- We now seem to have the same script - The case for going for a co-ordinated, early rate cut by the Fed, and getting more bang for the buck, was certainly powerful - 9th October 2008
- Doctors must stop squabbling over the patient - The world's financial system needs emergency action to restore confidence. The longer that takes, the weaker it gets - 7th October 2008
- It’s the economy that is taxing John McCain’s fortune - The Republican candidate's performance on economic issues during the election campaign has been deeply unimpressive - 4th October 2008
- Credit crunch talk is rubbish - Capitalism is dead. America has gone socialist. Europe has shown the way. Oh yes? - 3rd October 2008
- If Paulson is wrong, we can only pray - US Treasury Secretary might soon have to go back down on his knees and plead with an even higher authority for intervention - 30th September 2008
- As the storm rages, only governments can save us - 29th September 2008
- This is the election you wouldn't want to win - The bad news: November's victor could be a one-term disaster. The good news: a great president may follow him - 26th September 2008
- Henry Paulson's rescue paints Congress into tight corner - 23rd September 2008
- More regulation will harm, not help - It is easy to feel that ‘Something Must be Done. But it is a temptation we should resist - 19th September 2008
- Politicians meddle in markets at their peril - Governments could push much too hard in the opposite direction and sacrifice many of the gains that markets have made - 17th September 2008
- The speechmaker is being rumbled - There is a yawning gulf between what Obama says and how he acts. That's why the race is so close - 12th September 2008
- It’s still the economy, stupid - Absent from either Republican or Democratic agenda is a serious plan for dealing with the crisis at the root of US economic stress - 9th September 2008
- A new kind of western conservatism - Sarah Palin's thrilling convention speech showed that Alaska's governor is a force to reckoned with - 5th September 2008
- September is the cruellest month - The September Curse has caused stocks to decline by an average of 1.2 per cent since 1929, more than any other month - 2nd September 2008
- McCain isn't Bush - The Democrats' strategy is to make the election look like a rerun of 2000 and 2004 - 29th August 2008
- It’s not the colour of Barack Obama's skin that is the problem, it’s his political flaws - 27th August 2008
- Big events in an empty capital - Media focus is on Denver's Democratic National Convention, but major decisions must be made soon in Washington about Fannie and Freddie - 26th August 2008
- Senator Joe Biden will rub shine off Barack Obama's call for change - 25th August 2008
- Yes we can! turns to: oops, we may not - Obama suddenly looks vulnerable. The limelight is making him less likely to become president - 22nd August 2008
- Eyes on the Fed at annual symposium - Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke seems intent for now to leave interest rates and wait to see how much more damage the economy will sustain - 21st August 2008
- Economists savour the views from the summit - the US Federal Reserve's annual symposium on monetary policy - 19th August 2008
- Europe wins a gold for defeatism - Sarkozy's ‘peace in our time' deal is a reminder of what could happen if the EU wins more clout - 15th August 2008
- Putin capitalises on US ambivalence - For Georgians, Putin's accusation that the US was assisting them in their struggle must have added cruel insult to mounting injury - 12th August 2008
- Georgia gambit gives a sharp reminder - The mini-war in the Caucasus could end the slide which was threatening a dramatic redistribution of global wealth from oil - 12th August 2008
- And lo, he ventured forth . . . - The anointed one's pilgrimage to the Holy Land is a miracle in action - and a blessing to all his followers - Obama in the Holy Land - 25th July 2008
- Hysteria alert: Fab One tour starts - Obama is no messiah but his appearance in Europe will inspire those disenchanted with the US - 18th July 2008
- It’s worse than we feared and there’s more pain to come, but it will pass - US economy - 16th July 2008
- Fannie and Freddie worth more than money - 14th July 2008
- Iran and Israel build up their bluffing game - The warlike posturing would be more frightening if there were much likelihood of an Israeli attack - but there isn't - 11th July 2008
- Barack Obama's policy switches are giving the Left whiplash - The Democratic nominee's policy pivots are causing anguish among liberals. He is no fool - 4th July 2008
- Cheer up. We're winning this War on Terror - Al-Qaeda and the Taleban are in retreat, the surge has worked in Iraq and Islamism is discredited. Not a bad haul - 27th July 2008
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