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Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Mask Traders, Scientists, and the Looming Bank Collapse

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Corruption, lobbyingcorporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean. 


Where there’s a need, there’s a free market…um, sort of

I’m obsessed with this story. How and why did two prestigious medical journals, the Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine, end up publishing a clearly flawed study? While this isn’t the final word, it’s a good look at some of the fascinating characters involved: 

We all want the pandemic to go away. But regardless of what happens with reopening, the economic reverberations are just beginning

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Bethany McLean is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, a columnist for Yahoo Finance, and a contributor to CNBC. Her 2001 Fortune piece, “Is Enron Overpriced?,” was one of the first skeptical articles about the company. After Enron collapsed into bankruptcy, she co-authored (with Peter Elkind) The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron. A documentary based on the book was nominated for an Academy Award in 2006. She is also the author of All the Devils Are Here (with Joe Nocera), Shaky Ground, and Saudi America. Along with Luigi Zingales, she co-hosts the Podcast Capitalisn't.

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