A wonderfully unique journalist died last month at age 86: Irving R. Levine. He was a longtime correspondent for NBC News who showed others how to take the economy andrnmake it understandable and accessible to a wide audience.rnFollowing stints overseas, Levine was given this once dead-end beat in the early 1970s. But the economy soon left the back pages to become a front-page topic, and with its importance Levine's star rose. He worked hard. When he interviewed me about the flat tax during my runs for President and again, later, when Forbes was doing some uncommon things regarding the company's health care insurance, Levine did his homework and came prepared.
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