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John Cassidy

Business

Mastering the Machine

How Ray Dalio built the world’s richest and strangest hedge fund.

John Cassidy New Yorker Jul 2011 35min Permalink

What Good Is Wall Street?

“For years, the most profitable industry in America has been one that doesn’t design, build, or sell a single tangible thing.” The case for why investment banking is socially useless.

John Cassidy New Yorker Nov 2010 30min Permalink

Business Tech

Me Media

A 2006 profile of Mark Zuckerberg as Facebook opened from a college-only site to a public social network.

John Cassidy New Yorker May 2006 30min Permalink