Joshua Brown
Joshua Brown is an American financial writer, blogger, and commentator whose work focuses on investing and markets. He wrote Backstage Wall Street, co-authored How I Invest My Money, and later published You Weren’t Supposed to See That. His blog, The Reformed Broker, has been read by millions of investors and advisors. ((https://www.cnbc.com/joshua-brown/?utm_source=openai))
Biography & Author's Journey
Joshua Morgan Brown built his reputation as a financial writer from the inside out. Educated at the University of Maryland, he earned his Series 7 license in 1997 while still in school and completed his bachelor’s degree in 1999. Rather than arriving through academic economics, he came up through the brokerage business, where years of firsthand experience exposed him to the incentives, sales culture, and narrative machinery of Wall Street. The decisive turn came during the 2008 financial crisis, when he began The Reformed Broker in November 2008 and used it to write candidly about markets, media, and the industry he knew best. ((https://www.cnbc.com/joshua-m-brown/?utm_source=openai))
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Community Voices
"Joshua Brown gives voice to what all investment professionals are—or should be—secretly thinking"
— Michael Santoli
"Josh Brown is a CNBC contributor known for his sharp market insights and actionable investing strategies"
— CNBC
"Joshua Brown may be the funniest writer on finance today"
— Barron's
"Joshua Brown is a New York City-based financial advisor and author of the influential Reformed Broker blog"
— InvestmentNews
"Brown’s Backstage Wall Street re-creates the boiler room retail brokerage culture of the 1990s and early 2000s in vivid color"
— Forbes
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"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
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