by Leah McGrath Goodman | Jul 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
As most writers, I am a tiny bit obsessed with music. Apropos of nothing, more than 14 million Americans are now out of work (according to the latest blizzard of stunningly disappointing U.S. Labor Department data released Friday). In the past, we’ve seen our...
by Leah McGrath Goodman | Jul 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
The whole Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair looks like it’s coming to a painful close (with even the close itself looking painful in some such terms as, when will it close?). As we look askance, I am trying to ask myself…what have we learned? Not much. Except...
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...
