by Leah McGrath Goodman | Jul 8, 2011 | Uncategorized
Not my words, just something an observant Canadian living inside the U.S. had to say today about our country’s death match over the debt ceiling — before remarking that it might be wise to, uh, “back-migrate.” Instead of an espresso shot this...
by Leah McGrath Goodman | Jul 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
So, I wrote a book…but I have not been goodly enough to do much blogging about it. This was not intentional. This was mainly because of the furious pace of travel, lawsuits, the odd threat — and the fact that I was serving full time as a journalism fellow...
by Leah McGrath Goodman | Jun 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
Many of you have written to ask for a good bit more on the shenanigans prevalent in today’s oil market. Check out this show, aired today, from minute 14 on…(Thankfully, you can scroll through to the juicy stuff.) More to come on DOJ, FTC, CFTC and FERC...
by Leah McGrath Goodman | Jun 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
June 2011 by Rogue Philosopher The Asylum: The Renegades Who Hijacked the World’s Oil Market by Leah McGrath Goodman details how a handful of commodity traders on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) manipulated the energy futures markets and thereby did more...
by Leah McGrath Goodman | May 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
The price of oil is set not in Vienna at the headquarters of OPEC, but at the New York Mercantile Exchange. Llewellyn King, PBS Sunday, May 1, 2011 WASHINGTON — The fate of the Obama presidency hangs not on a birth certificate or the red ink on the federal...
