Education
Born in Los Angeles, Palast attended John H. Francis Polytechnic High School and transferred to San Fernando Valley State College (now California State University, Northridge) in 1969, before his senior year of high school. Palast complained about high school: "Basically they were melting my brain, and I had to save myself. Before I finished high school, I talked my way into college. Before I finished college, I talked my way into graduate school." Palast then attended the University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, Berkeley, and University of Chicago, from which he would graduate in 1974 with an Bachelor of Arts in economics and in 1976 with a Master's of Business Administration. One of Palast's professors was the Nobel laureate and eventual adviser to President Ronald Reagan, Milton Friedman. Palast majored in economics at Chicago from the advice of a Weather Underground member he met at Berkeley who suggested Palast "familiarize himself with right-wing politics and learn about the 'ruling elite' from 'the inside.'"
Palast spoke at a Think Twice conference held at Cambridge University and lectured at the University of São Paulo. He lives in New York City.
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