Gretchen Morgenson

Gretchen Morgenson is the senior financial reporter in the Investigations unit at NBC News, a position she assumed in Dec. 2019. Her work appears as tv segments on NBC News network, cable and streaming shows and on NBCNews.com. Previously, Ms. Morgenson spent two years as Senior Special Writer in the Investigations unit at The Wall Street Journal, and almost 20 years as assistant business and financial editor and a columnist at The New York Times. She began covering world financial markets for The Times in May 1998 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for her “trenchant and incisive” coverage of Wall Street in which she revealed deep conflicts of interest among powerful and respected brokerage firm analysts. A graduate of Saint Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, Ms. Morgenson worked as a stockbroker in New York City in the early 1980s, was a writer at Money Magazine later that decade and an assistant managing editor at Forbes Magazine in the 1990s. She is co-author, with Joshua Rosner, of “Reckless Endangerment,” a 2011 New York Times bestseller about the origins of the mortgage crisis. She is also co-author, with Rosner, of “These are the Plunderers,” a Wall Street Journal bestseller scrutinizing the world of private equity. Here, Gretchen Morgenson presents a deep dive into the way Wall Street Banks and Shadow Banking institutions fund private equity, Venture Capital, and Hedge Funds. In this highly acclaimed book -- read by millions -- Morgenson shows the dominance of private equity and its transformative effect in every sector of the economy.