by Leah McGrath Goodman | Nov 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
Not all banks are the same. A handful of banks — such as the one that invited me to speak in Austria this autumn– were not happy to see the multibillion-dollar bailouts, the hue and cry of the public and the resumption of the indefensible bonuses on Wall...
by Leah McGrath Goodman | Nov 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
Our national discourse on the nature of wealth has been a good cure for sanity of late. News that a book coming out from the surviving son of Bernard Madoff, mastermind of the largest Ponzi scheme in history, elicited comments from readers that could be called...
by Leah McGrath Goodman | Oct 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
Since publishing “The Asylum: The Renegades Who Hijacked The World’s Oil Market,” I have received a great deal of response (most of it in private correspondence and some in public forums, such as the press and in the courts, where I spent the better...
by Leah McGrath Goodman | Sep 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
With the hurricane aside and the power on, I finally settled down to watch the National Geographic Channel’s exclusive interview with George W. Bush on the TiVo. This program actually aired last weekend. I am just catching up on it now. In it, George Bush...
by Leah McGrath Goodman | Aug 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
In the end, it was all a little too anticlimactic. Despite the impressive turnout of Anderson Cooper at CNN, Shepard Smith at Fox News Channel, Brian Williams at NBC, Diane Sawyer at ABC and Scott Pelley at CBS, Hurricane Irene did not stick, stubbornly turning into a...
