Leah McGrath Goodman

Jan 24, 2024 | thedailyupside.com | Leah McGrath Goodman

If tax havens refuse to change, then what can stop them? The Year of the Dragon is nigh – and, as ever, it signifies imperial power. One modest example: gold-dipped Coronation carriages. But it also represents innovations and ideas that have the capacity to change the world. This year, the vicissitudes of imperial power – not to mention presidential power – appear to be on a collision course with heightened demand for transformational change.

Jan 17, 2024 | thedailyupside.com | Leah McGrath Goodman

Fewer people are working than almost any other time in U.S. history. Call it what you will – quiet quitting, lying flat, the Great Resignation, or just plain old don’t wanna’ go back to work. Only a few years ago, the world was awash in life-after-the-pandemic predictions, as humans faced, in the words of one religious leader, “the fragility and vulnerability of the human situation.” There were prognostications of rampant misinformation, political uprisings and mass reclusion, none of them wrong.

Jan 10, 2024 | thedailyupside.com | Leah McGrath Goodman

A presidential election – and democracy – may be at risk. Journalists have often wished, rather fancifully, for a way to help the average voter improve the caliber of their information filter to separate the signal from the noise. But what happens when there’s far more noise than signal? That’s becoming a problem.

Jan 3, 2024 | thedailyupside.com | Leah McGrath Goodman

Why it’s still a tightrope-walk to an economic soft landing. Greetings after a rather foamy year in which the S&P 500 ended up 25 percent, flirting with a record high, and the Nasdaq Composite leapt , propelled by the gravity-defying “Magnificent Seven,” comprising Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple and Tesla. Globally, the MSCI World Index, which tracks stocks across 47 countries, jumped more than 20 percent, amid sharp price swings.

Dec 20, 2023 | thedailyupside.com | Leah McGrath Goodman

Airlines bracing for the crush of holiday travelers taking to the skies this December are also dealing with another problem – a sharp uptick in turbulence during flights caused by climate change. This year, AAA forecasts a record 7.5 million people will travel by air for the holidays, outstripping the record number of flyers in 2019, just before the pandemic hit.