Matthew C Klein
Matthew C. Klein writes for Bloomberg View about the economy and financial markets. He previously wrote for the Economist magazine and for its economics blog, Free Exchange.
Before that, Klein was a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he spent more than two years studying the history of the Federal Reserve and the intellectual history of monetary economics for an upcoming book. He also worked at Bridgewater Associates, where he studied the economies of Central and Eastern Europe and advised institutional investors on asset-liability management. Klein has a B.A. in History from Yale. Originally from Chicago, he lives in New York.
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