John Carney worked for the Wall Street Journal in various positions: as the paper's only official Wall Street writer, as co-head editor of digital Markets, and wrote about Wall Street for the Wall Street Journal's Heard on the Street. Michael Faulkender is an associate dean of master's programs and professor of finance at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.

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