Ted C. Fishman Photo by Alan Thomas

About the Author
Ted C. Fishman’s essays and reports have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Money, Harper’s, Worth, Esquire, USA Today, GQ, Chicago magazine and Business 2.0. His commentaries have been featured on Public Radio International’s Marketplace. A former floor trader and member of the Chicago Merchantile Exchange, he ran his own trading firm until 1992. He lives in Chicago.