Binyamin Appelbaum

Binyamin Appelbaum is the lead writeron business and economics for the editorial board of The New York Times. Before joiningthe board in 2019, he was a longtime economic policy correspondent for the Times, based in Washington, DC. He writesregularly about housing issues, including the critical shortage of affordablehousing in the United States and the growing number of Americans who areexperiencing 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 in2020 by S. Fischer Verlage as Die Stunde der Ökonomen.