The Heiress, the Queen, and the Trillion-Dollar Tax Shelter
An ugly family battle on the island of Jersey spills into the open.
David Miranda and the Human-Rights Black Hole
David Miranda is many things—a boisterously proud, gay Brazilian; an outspoken civil liberties evangelist; a freshly minted university graduate; and the spouse of Glenn Greenwald, the American journalist who has been publishing highly classified material leaked by former CIA systems analyst and National Security Agency (NSA) senior adviser Edward Snowden.
But one thing Miranda is not is a terrorist.
Miranda Is Not a One-Off; it Happened to Me.
Before David Miranda was detained for nine hours at London’s Heathrow Airport, there was me..
5 Shocking Gas Prices Around The Globe
Surprised by Gas Price of $4 a Gallon? Try $8.35 in Germany By SUSANNA KIM April 12, 2011 While American drivers are spooked by $4-per-gallon gasoline prices in the U.S., they may be shell-shocked on other continents like Europe. In London, gas was $8.17 per gallon in...
Same Oil, Same Palaver…
Another year of high oil prices, another endless conversation about the role of speculators. Call up anyone on Wall Street or in Washington to find out what’s really going on. Chances are, the answers you get will go a little something like an Abbott and Costello...
New Book Reveals Who Controls Global Oil Prices
By Tim O'Shei HOUSTON BUSINESS JOURNAL | Friday, Apr 8th 2011 Who controls the global oil prices? Powerful banks? Massive hedge funds? Big Oil? OPEC? There's never been a straight answer to that question - until now. Leah McGrath Goodman, a former special writer and...
The Global Oil Casino Benefits Only Its Players
Originally published in The Financial Times on April 6th, 2011 Tensions in the Middle East and north Africa, we are told, lie behind the recent increase in global fuel prices, which Wednesday hit a 2 ½-year high. Yet while Brent crude this week stayed above $120 a...
Killing Your Own: The Truth About Oil Speculators
Originally published on huffingtonpost.com on Mar. 14, 2011 In the mid-1990s, the U.S. Marine Corps sent more than a dozen generals, colonels and other high-ranking officers to the trading floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange, the world's reigning oil market....
The Secret Group Setting the Price of Oil: Us
Originally published on fortune.cnn.com on Mar. 9, 2011 In this excerpt from The Asylum: The Renegades Who Hijacked the World's Oil Market, Leah McGrath Goodman witnesses a NYMEX energy trader hazing ritual and watches Bill O'Reilly uncover how those traders set the...
When It Comes to $100 Oil, It’s Every Man for Himself
Originally published on abcnews.go.com on Feb. 24, 2011 Energy Trading Is Rife with Loopholes for Some but Not All Oil topped $100 a barrel for the first time Wednesday since 2008, the same year that Wall Street and Washington brought the nation to the brink of...
‘The Asylum:’ New Book Uncovers the Dark Side of the New York Merc
Originally published on CNBC.com on Feb. 15, 2011 “It’s the side of Wall Street Wall Street doesn’t want you to see,” one high-level banker warned me before I ventured down the rabbit hole that would become my seven-year sojourn to the heart of the oil market. I will...