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.

Why Wall Street Is Betting On Nikki Haley
She can beat Biden, but first she has to neutralize Trump.
Risk On…Despite Everything?
Interest rates and risk appetite to set the table for 2024…
U.S. Holiday Spending Smashes Records, But Cash Crunch Seen Ahead
Signs are mounting that consumers are finally feeling the pinch.
Why This Year’s Black Friday Matters
It’s official: 2023 has been the year of the American consumer. The propensity for Americans to spend as though they have bottomless bank accounts has…
‘If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich?’
It sounds like something a gunslinging, billionaire hedge fund manager might say. And it is. Ray Dalio, founder of the highly secretive, $100 billion hedge…
OpenAI: It’s Complicated
The first large-scale rebellion among artificial intelligence workers raises some serious questions.
The Comeuppance of (Another) Crypto Kingpin
Binance agrees to pay one of the biggest corporate fines in U.S. history. Changpeng Zhao is the founder and chief executive officer of Binance, the largest…
Artificial Intelligence Is the New Gold Rush
How the race for profits could overtake the need to weigh human risks.
What’s Afoot At the FDIC?
It’s not every day that you wake up to headlines about one of the nation’s most staid-and-storied institutions – really, the cornerstone upon which…
Biden-Xi: An Elaborately Choreographed Thaw
With so much amiss between the U.S. and China (the pandemic, the “balloon incident,” China’s opposing views on the Ukraine-Russia and Israel-Gaza…