Tom BeardsworthThe Doctor Who Fooled The WorldAs the rich world grinds slowly toward ending the COVID-19 pandemic through mass vaccination, a reckoning with the stubborn minority of…4 min read·Jan 11, 2021----
Tom BeardsworthBillion Dollar WhaleThe trick in writing a story about bonds and banking, one learns, is to add “color” (or “colour” since I’ve been liberated from the use of…4 min read·Dec 17, 2019----
Tom BeardsworthAll That Glitters: The Fall of BaringsIt happened a quarter-century ago and the half-billion (roughly) that he lost has been eclipsed by rogue-trading scandals since. Yet the…5 min read·Sep 23, 2019----
Tom BeardsworthBad Blood: John CarreyrouI’ve little to add to the weight of commentary about Bad Blood, the Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou’s story about alleged…3 min read·Apr 6, 2019----
Tom BeardsworthThe Match King: Frank PartnoyThis entered near the top of my reading list last year after I learned it was one of the core texts of short-seller Jim Chanos’s History…3 min read·Feb 2, 2019----
Tom BeardsworthThe Smartest Guys In The Room: Bethany McLean and Peter ElkindThe title of Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind’s 2003 book about the rise and fall of Enron is conveyed with a knowing wink. Ken Lay, Andy…4 min read·Jan 15, 2019----
Tom BeardsworthLying For MoneyThe idea that “there isn’t much that is truly difficult” to understand about complex fraud is at once a bracing and disarming introduction…3 min read·Jul 31, 2018----