John Carney covers Wall Street and finance for CNBC.com, where he runs NetNet. John Carney was recently hired by Breitbart News, where he leads a new finance and economics section. Carney joined CNBC in 2010 after serving as managing editor of Business Insider's Wall Street and economics section. Prior to that he was Editor in Chief of DealBreaker.com.
He is a frequent guest on CNBC's "Power Lunch" and public radio's "Marketplace." His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New York Sun, Page Six Magazine, the New York Post, Fortune, Gawker and New York magazine.
Mr. Carney received a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania and practiced corporate law at firms such as Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Latham & Watkins where he primarily represented banks, hedge funds and private equity firms.
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