Binyamin Appelbaum is the lead writer on business and economics for the editorial board of The New York Times. Before joining the board in 2019, he was a longtime economic policy correspondent for the Times, based in Washington, DC. He writes regularly about housing issues, including the critical shortage of affordable housing in the United States and the growing number of Americans who are experiencing homelessness as a consequence. He is the author of The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society, published in German translation in 2020 by S. Fischer Verlage as Die Stunde der Ökonomen.
