Global Economics Correspondent, The New York Times
Author of How the World Ran Out of Everything, Davos Man, and Past Due
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Award-winning reporting from around the world on globalization, trade, supply chains, inequality, labor and economic change.
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Globalization
Trade, manufacturing, and economic integration
Inequality and Wealth
The interplay of power and money challenging democracy.
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Supply Chains
Disruption, adaptation, and the pursuit of resilience
Global Development
Food security, agriculture, and emerging economies.
Reporting Around the World
Over three decades, Peter S. Goodman has reported from six decades on globalization, trade, inequality, innovation, labor, development and economic change.
LATEST WORK
THE GREAT SUPPLY CHAIN DISRUPTION
'It's Not Sustainable': What America's Port Crisis Looks Like Up Close, The New York Times, October 11, 2021.
The World Is Still Short of Everything. Get Used to It, The New York Times, August 31, 2021.
How the World Ran Out of Everything, The New York Times, June 2, 2021.
In Suez Canal, Stuck Ship Is a Warning About Excessive Globalization, The New York Times, March 26, 2021.
'I've Never Seen Anything Like This': Chaos Strikes Global Shipping, The New York Times, March 7, 2021.
PANDEMIC
What Would It Take to Vaccinate the World?, The New York Times, May 15, 2021.
Chaos Strikes Global Shipping, The New York Times, March 6, 2021.
If Poor Countries Go Unvaccinated, Rich Ones Will Pay, The New York Times, January 23, 2021.
How Cuts to Sweden's Social Safety Net Exposed Seniors, The New York Times, October 8, 2020.
Hunger is Growing Scourge, The New York Times, September 11, 2020.
Pandemic Strands Migrant Workers, The New York Times, July 27, 2020.
GLOBAL ECONOMY
In the Philippines, Duterte Promises Land Reform, Delivers Brutality, The New York Times, December 27, 2019.
How Italy's Bastion of the Left Turned Hard Right, The New York Times, December 5, 2019.
Swedish Backlash Against Immigration Tests Nordic Model, The New York Times, July 11, 2019.
Argentina Again On The Brink, The New York Times, May 10, 2019.
In India, Modi's Promised Infrastructure Yet to Arrive, The New York Times, May 16, 2019.
How Erdogan Built a Turkish Economic Disaster, The New York Times, July 10, 2018.
The Dollar Is Still King. How Can That Be?, The New York Times, February 22, 2019.
In Britain, Austerity is Changing Everything, The New York Times, May 28. 2018.
Economic Apartheid Persists in South Africa, The New York Times, October 24, 2017.
Italy Forever Menaces Global Finance, The New York Times, November 19, 2016.
China, Sudan, Brutality and Oil, The Washington Post, December 23, 2004.
BREXIT
How Brexit Produced 53 Tons of Rotting Pork, The New York Times, The New York Times, February 12, 2021.
Post-Brexit, Britain Goes Its Own Way, The New York Times, February 25, 2020.
Brexit Makes Irish Border Real Again, The New York Times, December 26, 2018.
Brexit Could Leave Wedding Bouquets Stuck at Border, The New York Times, November 14, 2018.
"Brexit Imperils London's Claim to 'Banker to the Planet,'" The New York Times, May 11, 2017.
Brexit's Nationalism Could Sink Britain's Economy, The New York Times, May 20. 2016.
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THE GREAT RECESSION
The Bus Does Not Go Where The Jobs Are, HuffPost, July 11, 2012.
The Silicon Valley Homeless, HuffPost, January 3, 2012.
An Epochal Real Estate Bust, The New York Times, January 2, 2010.
Inside a Predatory Mortgage Machine, The New York Times, December 27, 2008.
Alan Greenspan and the Derivatives Disaster, The New York Times, October 8, 2008.
This Is The Sound of A Bubble Bursting, The New York Times, December 23, 2007.
CHINA
Global Brands Struggle to Disentangle from Xinjiang Cotton, The New York Times, April 6, 2021.
Money and Muscle Pave China's Way to Global Power, The New York Times, November 25, 2018.
Xi Jinping Confronts an Impossible Situation, HuffPost, July 11, 2013.
Child Abduction at Center of Chinese Foreign Adoption Racket, The Washington Post, March 12, 2006.
In China's Frontier, A Fortune is Made, The Washington Post, February 17, 2006.
COLUMNS
How China Changed Western Business, HuffPost, November 14, 2013.
Bezos Could Breathe Life Into WashPost, HuffPost, August 6, 2013.
Behind McDonald's Poverty Wages: Corporate Welfare, HuffPost, July 17, 2013.
The Real Meaning of Chicago Teacher's Strike, September 15, 2012.
How Lack of Diversity Yields Bad Economics, HuffPost, August 3, 2011.
Bin Laden's Legacy: American Drift, HuffPost, May 2, 2011.
Obama's Biggest Fail, HuffPost, February 9, 2011.
MISCELLANY
Where Giannis Came From: Race, Identity, and the Making of an NBA Legend, The New York Times, May 3, 2019.
Superheroes for Each Other, The New York Times, July 9, 2015 -- Modern Love essay about my weakest moment.
Cultural Revelation, The Washington Post, September 16, 2003. Feature about photo voices project in rural western China.
