Notable work
Housing Market
Four years, $13 million and dozens of hands
This visually compelling deep dive into why it's so expensive to build affordable housing won a national award in 2020
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
The lawyers who took on Big Tobacco are aiming at Realtors
I spent several years covering the efforts to reform the realtor business model, including this blockbuster feature on the class-action lawsuit
Financial Markets and Investing
Investing legend Burton Malkiel on day-trading millennials
In the midst of the pandemic day-trading craze, I interviewed investing legend Burt Malkiel
ETF Wrap
I developed and launched this very successful weekly ETF newsletter for MarketWatch
Stocks are at all time highs...…
'Markets don't feel right' one year after the pandemic first hit, a theme I explored in this well-received feature
Personal Finance
Long-term care insurance: a good idea, but it will cost you
This 2022 feature for USA Today explores the insurance no-one wants to think about
Mortgage rates just tumbled. Here's why that's bad for the housing market.
I’ve written weekly columns on mortgage rates — and what they mean — on and off for years.
The Fed Just Hiked Rates Again. Here’s Why It’s Different This Time.
What’s the Federal Reserve doing and why should you care? I answer that question after every meeting for this company’s blog.
Public Finance and Municipal Bonds
A mostly Black Alabama county has no municipal sewer service
This 2021 expose connected the dots between a DOJ investigation and the use of the Civil Rights Act for environmental justice
'You can't do impact on a passive basis’
A Q&A with Eric Glass, who launched one of the first municipal-bond impact strategies on Wall Street, and then walked away
'Trying to strangle local governments’
Antagonism between a city and its state legislature is perhaps one of the most important and least covered issues in public finance
"Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.”
- Philip Pullman