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Where's My Benjamins

Where's My Benjamins

Wall Street’s trash is fiction’s gold, w/ cameos from Wittgenstein and Marie NDiaye

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Apr 08, 2021
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The financial blogger Matt Levine has a running joke in his Money Stuff column: “Is everything securities fraud?” The punchline riffs on a legal construct that lets shareholders sue companies pretty much any time the stock price falls. Anyway, swap out “securities” for “reality,” and we’ve arrived.

Is Everything Reality Fraud…?

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