Money, Mind And Meaning

Gregory Zuckerman is a Special Writer at The Wall Street Journal. He writes about big financial trades, hedge funds, private-equity firms and other investing and business topics. In the past, Greg wrote the "Heard on the Street" column and covered the credit markets for the paper. Greg is the author of "The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters," published November 2013 by Penguin Press. He's also the author of “The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History,” published in December 2010 by Crown Business, a division of Random House. Greg and his two sons wrote Rising Above: How 11 Athletes Overcame Challenges in their Youth to Become Stars,” a book for young readers and adults that describes the moving and remarkable stories of how various stars overcame imposing setbacks in their youth. Greg joined the Journal in 1996 after writing about media companies for the New York Post. Previou