> She did a masters in econ under Leontief at NYU. From what I hear,
> she's a very diligent and thorough reporter who produces thoroughly
> uninteresting material.
>
When she covered economics as a regular beat for the Times, her stories were full of straightforward inaccuracies, all of them slanted rightwards. So I don't know about diligent and throrough. But she is certainly smart. She's not dumb like, say, Thomas Friedman or Craig Whitney.
Seth