Paul Blustein, a staff writer at The Washington Post, has covered business and economic issues for more than twenty years. He reported on the global financial crisis of the late 1990s for the Post and served as one of its correspondents in Asia from 1990 to 1995. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, he has also worked at Forbes and The Wall Street Journal, and he is a recipient of the Gerald Loeb Award, the most prestigious honor in business journalism. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.