Leah McGrath Goodman

Leah McGrath Goodman (she/her) is an award-winning investigative journalist and author who’s been writing about money and politics for two decades. She has written for Institutional Investor, CNN, Fortune, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Barron’s, The Wall Street Journal, and Dow Jones Newswires, where she was a special writer, editor and foreign correspondent. As finance editor and features writer for Newsweek, she was a finalist for the National Magazine Award.

Writers’ Strike Just Tip of Iceberg?

All month, the writers’ strike has raged, with screenwriters railing against Hollywood companies for refusing to pay them a living wage. As part of their demands, writers are insisting on structural changes to how media companies like Netflix handle compensating…

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America Barreling Toward Default Next Week

If only President Biden could sidestep a debt default as deftly as he dodges killer U-Haul trucks. Despite a surfeit of chirpy talk of optimistic “tones” in the discussions over the U.S. budget and debt ceiling, negotiations between Biden and…

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U-Haul Attack Highlights Rising Threats to President

A U-Haul is not a precision weapon, but it is a deadly one, particularly when being driven by a man threatening to kill the President of the United States. At around 9:40 p.m. Monday, a young man driving a 26-foot…

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As the U.S. Speeds Toward Default, Why the Pentagon Matters

America is now entering an 11th-hour critical phase of the debt-ceiling fight in Washington. If Congress and the White House cannot cobble together a deal by June 1 – less than two weeks from now – the U.S. Treasury made…

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Did Elon Musk Have Links to Epstein?

A little less than a year ago, Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, Twitter and SpaceX, shot off a tweet containing a dinosaur, a unicorn, a winged dragon and a sly reference to “the Epstein/Maxwell client list.” Above it was the heading,…

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Trump’s Dealings with Saudis Under Investigation

Former President Donald Trump’s dealings with Saudi-backed professional golf venture, LIV Golf, is under investigation as part of the U.S. Justice Department’s probe into his handling of classified documents. The connection between Trump’s relationship with LIV Golf and the broader classified documents…

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Ex-SVB Bank Chief: Fastest Bank Run in History ‘An Anomaly’

When members of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee confronted ex-Silicon Valley Bank Chief Executive Greg Becker and former Signature Bank executives about this spring’s full-on banking crisis, all they wanted to know was, how was it they didn’t see their…

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The Continuing Frauds of Elizabeth Holmes

No one should be surprised that the convicted CEO of Theranos is trying to rehab her image. What is stunning is how quickly someone took the bait.

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Biden is Biding, Yellen is Yelling, As U.S. Default Looms

To avoid “catastrophe,” Congress has to do just one thing: its job.

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Coronation Abomination

No golden crowns or jeweled scepters can cover up deficits in democracy.

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