This time on the theme that much of Wall Street innovation does not actually benefit society. I’ve written about that here, here and here. And in today’s Times Magazine, they note that the current Wall Street trading mentality more closely resembles a casino than the capital allocation function that Wall Street was founded to perform. I commented on the Times’ prior copying of me here.
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