An award-winning freelance journalist, Leah McGrath Goodman has written for Forbes, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal and Barron's in New York and London. She currently resides in Boulder, where she is a Ted Scripps fellow at the University of Colorado.
'A riveting tale of greed gone mad. Goodman nails the culture... A great ride for market fans.' --BusinessWeek 'Finance journalist Goodman traces Nymex's transformation into a colossus with a stranglehold on the sale of the world's energy. Goodman explores the lurid culture of Nymex traders, scruffy hustlers who shriek, swear and bring guns, drugs, and hookers right into the trading pit. One of the year's most colorful business histories.' --Publishers Weekly 'Welcome to a bet-on-anything, testosterone-drenched world...written with tremendous verve and insight.' --AR (Absolute Return + Alpha) 'Goodman wrote about Nymex for the Wall Street Journal before expanding her knowledge into a book...The inside look at a mostly closed institution is enlightening...Goodman's details about the infighting within Nymex membership are astounding, mainly because the members don t seem to realize they are destroying their path to wealth.' --Kirkus 'Goodman reveals a rough-and-tumble group with little formal education, who dress down, answer to no one, and are tougher than marines. Activities at the exchange are rife with cheating and overindulgence in drugs, prostitutes, and illegal gambling. Biting and infuriating, with even a 'Deep Throat' in the scoop.' --Booklist 'A seriously informative and amusing look into the oil trading pits.' --Huffington Post
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