by Leah McGrath Goodman | May 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
I’ve been writing a series for Fortune in recent weeks tackling questions like, if the U.S. is now selling more petroleum products than it is buying for the first time in more than six decades, why is most of the country paying around $4 a gallon for gas? And if...
by Leah McGrath Goodman | Apr 16, 2012 | Uncategorized
Today marks six years of writing as a free agent. When I hung out my shingle back in 2006, I wasn’t sure what it would be like to get up in the morning, walk into the next room (my office) and find my job waiting for me. I wondered, would it be a matter of time...
by Leah McGrath Goodman | Feb 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
Happy National Pancake/Leap Year/Week before Super Tuesday Day, all. It has been a turbulent past few months and not just in the oil market. I will get into why very shortly but, for now, let’s just say that after a long and dark winter, I am once again...
by Leah McGrath Goodman | Dec 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
Something to inspire your Friday: The story of a 30-year-old from Sunrise, Florida, who’s defying Wall Street — and not getting hit with a nightstick for it. Who is James Koutoulas and how did this 30-year-old end up leading the charge to recover more than...
by Leah McGrath Goodman | Nov 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
It met rarely and whined often. It gave up before the actual deadline (Nov. 23). It sought to shear over a trillion off the national budget, but came up with peanuts. It inspired satire in the form of, among other things, superhero cartoons. It was the...
by Leah McGrath Goodman | Nov 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
It’s official: when a Wall Street powerhouse suddenly collapses and (possibly) more than a billion dollars goes missing, it’s no longer just the ordinary taxpayer’s problem. Now, it has moved up the chain. Below, the piece I wrote today for Fortune...
