Jared Dillian is the editor of The Daily Dirtnap, a daily market newsletter for investment professionals, continuously published since 2008. He worked for a small floor market maker on the Pacific Options Exchange, and was a trader for Lehman Brothers, specializing in index arbitrage and ETF trading. Additionally, Jared was an adjunct professor in the business program at Coastal Carolina University.
Jared is also an investment strategist at Mauldin Economics, and previously contributed to Bloomberg Opinion, Forbes and TheStreet.com. His media appearances include MSNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg TV, BNN, The New York Times, LA Times, Business Insider, Marketwatch, Yahoo! Finance, and dozens of local and syndicated radio programs. He was the host of The Jared Dillian Show, a nationally syndicated radio show on personal finance, and is now the host of the Be Smart podcast. In his spare time, Jared is a progressive house DJ and speaks frequently on mental health issues at financial institutions.
He is the author of a number on books including Street Freak: Money And Madness At Lehman Brothers, which was named Businessweek's #1 general business book of 2011.