Lauren Weber was formerly a staff reporter at Reuters and Newsday. She has also written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, American Banker, and other publications.
Lauren grew up with a father who set the thermostat at 50 degrees during frigid New England winters and once tried to ration the family's toilet paper. She graduated from Wesleyan University and was a Knight-Bagehot journalism fellow at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. She lives (cheaply) in New York City.