“Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs.” ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“There’s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.” — Sol Stein, Stein on WritingBaltimore
Journalist and writer.
Selected work
Macro and financial markets
30-year Treasury breaches 5%, for USA Today
Me on private credit and cockroaches for USA Today
On the bond market and the Trump tariffs
Inflation shapes behavior decades after prices stabilize:this piece for the Chicago Booth Review still haunts me
To tame inflation, talk isn’t enough:the 2022 price spike was a gold rush for academics studying inflation
What would actually happen ifthe United States decided to default on its debt?
Housing market
Escrow shortages:another symptom of the affordability crisis
Civil rights issue of our generation:the town that refused to participate in Massachusetts’ pro-housing experiment
Why is affordable housing so expensive in America?
Priced-out renters to long-distance landlords: 28-year-olds buying eight houses in Texas. What could go wrong? Cherokee
Housing industry and realtor business model
Zillow wants to make trading houses as easy as trading stocks:2020 NAREE Gold Winner
Selling your home to an iBuyer could cost you thousands: I was the first national journalist to quantify the cost of using an 'iBuyer' to sell your home
There’s a lot of backstory to the current moment’s realtor industry wars that no-one mentions. See: Realtors and DoJ consent decree
Fintech and innovation
In this story explaining a new financial product, I compared mutual funds to mix tapes
Fidelity vs. fintech exposes limitations of 401(k) system
Bio-bonds: A new way to invest for medical miracles: featuring Karen Petrou, an absolute legend of the Washington-Wall Street nexus and someone I was blessed to know. RIP. Also with some guy named Lew Ranieri….
Social justice
The heir’s propertyPart One and Part Two:the labor of love that won the 2026 SABEW award
Bio
I’m an award-winning journalist with over a decade of experience breaking news, telling stories, and making complicated things make sense. I've covered the U.S. housing market, financial markets and investing, and public finance. I’m a runner, College Jeopardy! alum, trauma survivor, and basset hound mom.
