# Gregory Millman > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Gregory_Millman > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Gregory_Millman.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Millman > Source revision: 1303640473 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American freelance financial journalist (born 1951)}} '''Gregory J. Millman''' (born in [St. Louis, Missouri](/source/St._Louis%2C_Missouri)) is a freelance journalist and author of books on [financial markets](/source/financial_markets) and on [homeschooling](/source/homeschooling). Millman graduated in 1975 from the [University of Missouri in St. Louis](/source/University_of_Missouri_in_St._Louis), with a B.A. degree in French. He worked as a factory laborer, then earned an MA (Asian Studies) from [Washington University in St. Louis](/source/Washington_University_in_St._Louis) and an MBA from the [Olin Business School](/source/Olin_Business_School), and went to Taiwan where he continued studies in Chinese and began to work as a freelance writer for business publications. He returned to the United States in 1981, where he worked in banking, consulting, and project finance before returning to journalism in 1988. Shortly after an article he wrote for the September 1991 issue of ''Corporate Finance Magazine'' cited non-public documents, agents from the [U.S. Department of the Treasury](/source/U.S._Department_of_the_Treasury) showed up at the door of his home demanding that he reveal his source. When Millman refused, the Justice Department issued subpoenas for his telephone records and the records of people he had called.{{Cite news | title=Administration Out to Plug IRS Leak | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1992/01/22/administration-out-to-plug-irs-leak/aa3e1e8b-f3d0-4f85-9546-e4f2e47ee02a/ | newspaper=The Washington Post | date=1992-01-21 | first=Howard | last=Kurtz | url-access=registration}} The investigation extended to include the telephone records of the [Alicia Patterson Foundation](/source/Alicia_Patterson_Foundation),{{cite web|url=http://www.aliciapatterson.org|title=Alicia Patterson Foundation|work=aliciapatterson.org}} which awarded Millman a fellowship for 1992. Foundation chairman [Joseph Albright](/source/Joseph_Albright_(journalist)) and director Margaret Engel recounted{{Cite web |url=http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF1502/Engel/Engel.html |title=Our Phone Records Were Seized |access-date=2008-07-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607161740/http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF1502/Engel/Engel.html |archive-date=2007-06-07 |url-status=dead }} in the ''[Washington Post](/source/Washington_Post)'' how the [IRS](/source/Internal_Revenue_Service) obtained a thirteen-month record of the Foundation's telephone calls – even though neither Millman nor his sources had ever used that telephone. A subsequent conference on telephone privacy at the [National Press Club](/source/National_Press_Club_(United_States)) addressed this and similar instances of surveillance of reporters.{{Cite web |url=http://www.ussrback.com/crypto/crypto_papers/phone_92_privacy_conf.transcript |title=Conference on Telephone Privacy (transcript) |access-date=2008-07-30 |archive-date=2009-04-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090413041056/http://www.ussrback.com/crypto/crypto_papers/phone_92_privacy_conf.transcript |url-status=dead }} In May 1993, Millman testified at Congressional hearings on a draft version of the [Telephone Consumer Privacy Protection Act of 1993](/source/Telephone_Consumer_Privacy_Protection_Act_of_1993), sponsored by Representative [Edward John "Ed" Markey](/source/Edward_John_%22Ed%22_Markey). which included requirements for notification when telephone records were subpoenaed.{{cite web| url = http://www.allbusiness.com/services/business-services-miscellaneous-business/4686282-1.html| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071105011949/http://www.allbusiness.com/services/business-services-miscellaneous-business/4686282-1.html| archive-date = 2007-11-05| title = Subpoenaing Phone Records p. {{!}} Services > Business Services from AllBusiness.com}} In 1995, the [Free Press](/source/Free_Press_(publisher)) published Millman's ''The Vandal’s Crown: How Rebel Currency Traders Overthrew the World’s Central Banks'',{{cite book|title=The Vandal's Crown: How Rebel Currency Traders Overthrew the World's Central Banks: Gregory J. Millman: 9780029212875: Amazon.com: Books|isbn=0029212871|last1=Millman|first1=Gregory J.|year=1995|publisher=Free Press }} an investigation of the new financial markets and their power, and it was translated into ten languages. It was published in the United Kingdom under the title ''Around the World on a Trillion Dollars a Day''.{{cite book|title=Around the World on a Trillion Dollars a Day: How Rebel Currency Trade: Gregory J. Millman: 9780593036235: Amazon.com: Books|isbn=0593036239|last1=Millman|first1=Gregory J.|year=1995|publisher=Bantam Press }} In 1999, [Times Books](/source/Times_Books) published his ''The Day Traders: the Untold Story of the Extreme Investors and How They Changed Wall Street Forever''.{{Cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CEEDC1E3BF937A25752C1A96F958260|title = Surfing for Dollars|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 14 November 1999|last1 = Henriques|first1 = Diana B.}} In 2008, [Tarcher/Penguin](/source/Jeremy_P._Tarcher_Inc.) published ''Homeschooling: A Family’s Journey'',{{cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/Homeschooling-Familys-Journey-Millman-Hardcover/dp/B008CMBKQQ/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1438147986&sr=1-2&keywords=Homeschooling%3A+A+Family%E2%80%99s+Journey|title=Homeschooling – A Family's Journey (08) by Millman, Martine – Millman, Gregory [Hardcover (2008)]: Milman: Amazon.com: Books|date=14 August 2008|publisher=Tarcher |isbn=9781585426614 }} a journalistic memoir of [homeschooling](/source/homeschooling) six children, co-authored by Gregory J. Millman and his wife, Martine Parmer Millman. The book recounts the experience of [homeschooling](/source/homeschooling) children through elementary and high school, and also puts the experience in context with reporting on contemporary social, economic, and educational issues. ==Bibliography== * ''Homeschooling: A Family's Journey'' (2008) co-author Martine Millman * ''The Day Traders: The Untold Story of the Extreme Investors and How They Changed Wall Street Forever'' (1999) * ''The Vandal's Crown: How Rebel Currency Traders Overthrew the World's Central Banks'' (published in UK as Around the World on a Trillion Dollars a Day) (1995) * ''The Floating Battlefield: Corporate Strategies in the Currency Wars'' (1990) * {{cite encyclopedia |last1=Millman |first1=Gregory J. |editor= [David R. Henderson](/source/David_R._Henderson)|encyclopedia=[Concise Encyclopedia of Economics](/source/Concise_Encyclopedia_of_Economics) |title=Futures and Options Markets |url=http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/FuturesandOptionsMarkets.html |year=2008 |edition= 2nd |publisher=[Library of Economics and Liberty](/source/Library_of_Economics_and_Liberty) |location=Indianapolis|pages=207–211 |isbn=978-0865976658 |oclc=237794267}} ==Notes== ==External links== * {{official|http://www.gjmillman.com/}} * [http://www.writersreps.com/author.cfm?AuthorID=70/ Bio of Gregory Millman] * [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/03/23/ST2008032301796.html?sid=ST2008032301796/ Home is Where the School is (Washington Post 03/23/08)] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Millman, Gregory J.}} Category:American male journalists Category:Writers from St. Louis Category:1951 births Category:Living people Category:Washington University in St. Louis alumni Category:Olin Business School (Washington University) alumni Category:University of Missouri–St. Louis alumni --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Gregory Millman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Millman) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Millman?action=history)). 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