James Freeman is an American journalist specializing in economics, assistant editorial page editor at The Wall Street Journal, and author.
After graduation, he served as investor advocate at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
[1] Freeman is co-author with Vern McKinley of Borrowed Time: Two Centuries of Booms, Busts and Bailouts at Citi, a 2018 history of Citigroup.
[1][2][3][4][5][6] The Financial Times describes it as a "rollicking" tale "of hubris, over-reach and outright catastrophe" which is especially "excellent" on "the US economy in the 19th century, and the extent to which it relied on cotton, an 'economy . . .
[7] He is also the co-author with Maria Bartiromo of a book titled The Cost: Trump, China, and American Renewal which was published by Simon & Schuster in October 2020.