Linette Lopez
China has reached the end of its economic boom. What comes next should worry every American business — and the rest of the world.
Linette Lopez
Linette is a senior correspondent at Business Insider who focuses her writing on tech, finance and economics as well as international relations. She also conducts investigations into controversial companies, like Tesla.
She joined BI in the summer of 2011 after graduating from Columbia University’s School of Journalism and holds a BA from Columbia University, where she finished her undergraduate education in 2008.
In 2017 she won the Folio ‘Rising Star’ award for top women in media. In 2020 she won the ‘Excellence in Financial Journalism’ Award in opinion writing from NYSSCPA for a piece on US-China relations, ‘The Huawei indictment marks the end of US and China’s cycle of trust.’ In 2023 she won the New York Press Club award for commentary in digital journalism for a series of stories about the stock market’s decline in 2022.
She contributes to “Marketplace,” a radio show from American Public Media, and can be seen on MSNBC and CNN.
Some recent stories by Linette:
- ‘They’re all broke’: How the kings of Miami’s pandemic-era boom came crashing down
- Wall Street’s sharks are circling ‘dumb and greedy’ banks on the verge of failing
- ‘They will learn nothing from this’: Tech leaders remain staggeringly oblivious to the true lessons of Silicon Valley Bank
- Elon’s stale playbook
- ‘An over-levered clown’: Elon Musk is gambling his business empire on his takeover of Twitter
- ‘Lots of companies are going to get vaporized’: The tech titans of Silicon Valley are in serious trouble — and they’re going to take the rest of the stock market down with them
- Tesla knew its Model S battery had a design flaw that could lead to leaks and, ultimately, fires starting in 2012. It sold the car anyway.
The coronavirus could cripple China’s economy for longer than Wall Street wants to believe
China’s economy can’t snap back from the coronavirus as fast as it did after SARS because it’s growing more slowly and the banking system is a mess.
The Equifax hack proved China is trying to steal your stuff — and America’s political dysfunction is letting them take it
OPINION: If our political system weren’t so broken, companies like Equifax might actually have security in place to prevent a Chinese military hack.
If the economy is good, why do so many big American companies look so unstable?
OPINION: Half of corporate investment-grade bonds are one notch above junk, and a lack of investment in productivity could be to blame.
The worst part of the Iowa caucus mishap wasn’t the delay, it was the freak out
I am sorry we had to wait less than 24 hours for Iowa caucus results. Maybe calm down and go get a coffee or something?
Even in the midst of its worst crisis in 15 years, China still handed Trump a mortifying loss
The UK will allow Huawei to build out some of its 5G telecom systems. Consider it another blow to Trump’s foreign-policy “strategy.”
Linette Lopez
Linette is a senior correspondent at Business Insider who focuses her writing on tech, finance and economics as well as international relations. She also conducts investigations into controversial companies, like Tesla.
She joined BI in the summer of 2011 after graduating from Columbia University’s School of Journalism and holds a BA from Columbia University, where she finished her undergraduate education in 2008.
In 2017 she won the Folio ‘Rising Star’ award for top women in media. In 2020 she won the ‘Excellence in Financial Journalism’ Award in opinion writing from NYSSCPA for a piece on US-China relations, ‘The Huawei indictment marks the end of US and China’s cycle of trust.’ In 2023 she won the New York Press Club award for commentary in digital journalism for a series of stories about the stock market’s decline in 2022.
She contributes to “Marketplace,” a radio show from American Public Media, and can be seen on MSNBC and CNN.
Some recent stories by Linette:
- ‘They’re all broke’: How the kings of Miami’s pandemic-era boom came crashing down
- Wall Street’s sharks are circling ‘dumb and greedy’ banks on the verge of failing
- ‘They will learn nothing from this’: Tech leaders remain staggeringly oblivious to the true lessons of Silicon Valley Bank
- Elon’s stale playbook
- ‘An over-levered clown’: Elon Musk is gambling his business empire on his takeover of Twitter
- ‘Lots of companies are going to get vaporized’: The tech titans of Silicon Valley are in serious trouble — and they’re going to take the rest of the stock market down with them
- Tesla knew its Model S battery had a design flaw that could lead to leaks and, ultimately, fires starting in 2012. It sold the car anyway.
It’s official: The era of China’s global dominance is over
China has reached the end of its economic boom. What comes next should worry every American business — and the rest of the world.
Bill Ackman’s misguided Harvard crusade
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman’s decision to take out his anger at Hamas on a bunch of Harvard students is a clumsy and careless use of his power
Prices are about to soar even higher — and it could trigger a recession
Welcome to America’s greased-pig economy. Efforts to control inflation are failing, and it could result in consumer pain and a stock market crash.
China is doing everything it can to conceal the true extent of its economic turmoil
Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Chinese government have a brilliant plan to deal with the country’s economic turmoil: hide how bad it is.
Goldman Sachs used to be stone-cold killers. Now they just bore people to death.
Goldman Sachs’ rep as Wall Street’s most-feared investment bank is slipping — as are profits — as it tries to appeal to everyday consumers.
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