New York Magazine

Skip to content, or skip to search.

Skip to content, or skip to search.

new yorker stories in 400 words or less

Breaking: Much of What Wall Street Does Has No Social Value

In a nearly 8,000-word article, The New Yorker's John Cassidy finds no "empirical evidence" that the work being done by the multi-trillion-dollar finance industry is helping anyone other than the people who work within it. It might not be God's work at all! [New Yorker]