Position: Secretary

Type of Appointment/Position: Presidential with Senate confirmation    

Doug Henwood

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Almost from the first issue, the newsletter was a critical success, and, though the publication more than pays its bills, a vast cascade of subscriptions would always be welcome. LBO covers economics and politics in the broadest sense. Recent and persisting obsessions include income distribution and poverty in the U.S. and elsewhere in the First World; the evolving Western hemisphere free trade zone and the Mexican crisis; the globalization of finance and production; the worldwide attack on pensions; Third World debt and development; the transformation of the former "socialist" world; the IMF and World Bank; the media business; the influence of foundations on politics and culture; the meanings of Clintonism. Every issue includes a report on the world's financial markets and central banks. Besides editing LBO, Henwood is a contributing editor of The Nation and hosts a radio weekly program on WBAI (New York). He has written for numerous magazines and newspapers around the world, and has contributed chapters to a number of scholarly and popular anthologies. His social atlas of the U.S. (in the Pluto atlas series), The State of the USA, was published by Simon & Schuster in the fall of 1994, and his book Wall Street was published by Verso in June 1997, to great critical acclaim. It was also a smashing best-seller, as these things go; an updated paperback version was published in June 1998.