Wall Street May Be Panicking About the Swings in Oil Prices—But You Shouldn’t Leah McGrath GoodmanNewsweekFebruary 3, 2016 The headlines tell us that oil’s fall below $30 a barrel in January and loss of nearly 50 percent of its value in 2015 could spell...
Of all the rarefied niches on Wall Street, perhaps the most opaque and exclusive is the hedge fund industry, where traders are handed millions and even billions of dollars to invest on behalf of banks, endowments, pension funds and the superrich.
Judgment Day for the U.S. Surveillance State Leah McGrath GoodmanNewsweekMay 11, 2015 When James A. Baker, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s newly appointed general counsel, met for dinner with Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt a couple of months ago,...
The EMBERS Project Can Predict the Future With Twitter Leah McGrath GoodmanNewsweekMarch 7, 2015 For the majority of Americans born after World War II, it is unlikely Arlington, Virginia, holds any special significance. But for those who know that the outcome of the...
Predicting the Next Wall Street Disaster Leah McGrath GoodmanNewsweekFebruary 12, 2015 Wouldn’t it be great if the U.S. had a heat map of the entire financial system that could alert it to vulnerabilities and approaching calamities before a global crisis struck?...