Nick Timiraos is chief economics correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and is based in Washington. He is responsible for covering the Federal Reserve and other major developments in U.S. economic policy.
Previously, Nick covered the Treasury Department and U.S. housing and mortgage markets, including the government’s response to the foreclosure crisis and its control of finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. He contributed to the Journal’s presidential election coverage in 2008 and joined the Journal in 2006.
Nick is the author of “Trillion Dollar Triage” (Little Brown, 2022), which chronicles the U.S. economic-policy response to the Covid pandemic.