Jesse Eisinger

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Jesse Eisinger is a senior reporter at ProPublica, covering Wall Street and finance. He writes a regular column for The New York Times’s Dealbook section.

In April 2011, he and Jake Bernstein were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series of stories on questionable Wall Street practices that helped make the financial crisis the worst since the Great Depression. He and Bernstein were also finalists for the 2011 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for the series.

Prior to joining ProPublica, Eisinger was the Wall Street editor of Conde Nast Portfolio, where he wrote a November 2007 cover story titled "Wall Street Requiem," in which he predicted the demise of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers. Before joining Portfolio, he worked at The Wall Street Journal, where he was the founding writer of two market commentary columns, and he played a leading role in exposing accounting fraud at Belgium-based Lernout & Hauspie. During his tenure at The Wall Street Journal's European edition in London, Eisinger won a "Best in Business" award from the UK-based World Leadership Forum for his coverage of accounting irregularities at the Irish drug maker Elan Corp. Earlier in his career, he covered biotechnology and pharmaceuticals for TheStreet.com and Dow Jones Newswires. Prior to that, he lived and worked as a journalist in Chile.

He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the journalist Sarah Ellison, and their daughters.

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Freddie Mac Bets Against American Homeowners

Jan. 30, 2012, 5 a.m.

The taxpayer-owned mortgage giant made investments that profited if borrowers stayed stuck in high-interest loans while making it harder for them to get out of those loans.

From CEO to Candidate, Romney Flip-Flops on Debt

Jan. 18, 2012, 12:40 p.m.

Needed: A Cure for a Severe Case of Trialphobia

Dec. 14, 2011, 3:10 p.m.

Wall Street Is Already Occupied

Nov. 30, 2011, 12:12 p.m.

Crony Capitalism? Hank Paulson’s Extraordinary Meeting

Nov. 29, 2011, 5:35 p.m.

Bloomberg story shows that while we still haven’t had a full accounting of the financial crisis, we did have a Treasury Secretary sharing what amounts to inside information with a few elite Wall Street traders. Here are some questions that demand answers.

Dodd-Frank’s Derivatives Reforms: Clear as Mud

Nov. 16, 2011, 12:11 p.m.

Why the SEC Won’t Hunt Big Dogs

Oct. 26, 2011, 11:56 a.m.

Did Citi Get a Sweet Deal? Bank Claims SEC Settlement on One CDO Clears It on All Others

Oct. 20, 2011, 2:21 p.m.

A $285 million SEC settlement appears to wipe the slate clean on Citi’s multi-billion-dollar CDO business.

Trust Bust: Why No One Believes the Banks

Oct. 12, 2011, 11:15 a.m.

A Rogue to the Rescue: UBS Scandal Reinforces Need for Strict Volcker Rule

Sept. 28, 2011, 3:44 p.m.

Tackling Reams of Bank Data Can Take Diligence, and Trust

Sept. 14, 2011, 5:30 p.m.

Bank of America Gets Buffetted

Aug. 31, 2011, 2:35 p.m.

In U.S. Stress Tests, a Tool to Gauge Contagion in Europe

Aug. 10, 2011, 2:50 p.m.

Once Unthinkable, Breakup of Big Banks Now Seems Feasible

July 27, 2011, 2:50 p.m.

In U.S. Monetary Policy, a Boon to Banks

June 29, 2011, 3:03 p.m.

After SEC Settlement With JPMorgan, Will Other Banks Pay Too?

June 22, 2011, 12:57 p.m.

Many other banks created deals with similar characteristics to the transaction that resulted in JPMorgan’s $154 million settlement with the government. But the SEC still faces big challenges in wresting more settlements from banks.

Misdirection in Goldman Sachs’s Housing Short

June 15, 2011, 2:10 p.m.

From Dodd-Frank to Dud: How Financial Reform May Be Going Wrong

June 3, 2011, 8:16 a.m.

Some fear the grandest ambitions of the law passed last year to reform the nation’s financial system are being undermined in the rule-making process.

For One Whistle-Blower, No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

June 1, 2011, 2:19 p.m.

In HBO’s ‘Too Big to Fail,’ the Heroes Are Really Zeroes

May 25, 2011, 10:26 a.m.

Watch carefully, and you’ll see how the three men who saved the world—Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, NY Fed’s Timothy Geithner, and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson—get it wrong again and again and again.

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Read Jesse Eisinger's e-book, The Wall Street Money Machine, on your Kindle or mobile device.