OTHER WRITING BY NATHANIEL
ARTICLES ABOUT SILICON VALLEY AND TECHNOLOGY
‘It Was a Frat House’: Inside the Sex Scandal That Toppled SoFi’s C.E.O. (New York Times)
For months, the text messages came. Some were flirtatious, asking her to meet him late at night. Sometimes, the texts were sexually explicit. The messages were directed at Laura Munoz, an executive assistant at the online lending start-up Social Finance. The texts were from her boss, Mike Cagney, the company’s chief executive.
Opioid Dealers Embrace the Dark Web to Send Deadly Drugs by Mail (New York Times)
Synthetic opioids have become the fastest-growing cause of the overdose epidemic, overtaking heroin in some areas. Just a few flakes of fentanyl can be fatal. Their deadly efficiency also makes them ideal for sale on the dark net.
The Robots are Coming for Wall Street (New York Times Magazine)
Hundreds of financial analysts are being replaced with software. What office jobs are next?
ARTICLES ABOUT WALL STREET AND FINANCE
Has Wall Street Been Tamed? (New York Times Magazine)
Seven years after the financial crisis, I keep returning to this question of how much has really changed. Is the financial system any safer than when I began reporting on it?
Goldman Sachs Recasts its Reputation to Woo Tech Talent (New York Times)
The push within Goldman Sachs is a sign of how things have changed since the financial crisis. A few years back, critics of finance were wringing their hands about the high proportion of graduates from elite schools like M.I.T. who were going into finance rather than lending their talents to new start-ups.
Behind the Rise in House Prices, Wall Street Buyers (New York Times)
Large investment firms have spent billions of dollars over the last year buying homes in some of the nation’s most depressed markets. The influx has been so great, and the resulting price gains so big, that ordinary buyers are feeling squeezed out.
Small Bank in Kansas is a Financial Testing Ground (New York Times)
The bank's work is an unusual experiment: a new kind of mom-and-pop business trying to reshape a highly regulated and innovation-resistant industry.
As Fed's mortgage purchases end, eyes turn to investors (Los Angeles Times)
The government's $1.25-trillion program to prop up the housing market by purchasing mortgages came to an end Wednesday -- in a small, messy room at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York with four desks and a Nerf basketball hoop.
ARTICLES ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE
Committing to Play for a College, Then Starting 9th Grade (New York Times)
Coaches at colleges large and small flock to watch 13- and 14-year-old girls who they hope will fill out their future rosters. This is happening despite N.C.A.A. rules that appear to explicitly prohibit it.
Meet Edward Zuckerberg, tech-savvy dentist (and Mark's father) (Los Angeles Times)
Long before Mark became a billionaire and the subject of the Academy Award-winning biopic "The Social Network," his father was embracing a digital future from the confines of his small business.
A Conscious Pariah (The Nation)
Raul Hilberg and Hannah Arendt never met, in part because of his lingering bitterness toward her, but the strands of his research that she wove into her writing are only the most telling instances of the profound ways in which the two thinkers' lives and ideas were intertwined.
Ikea's U.S. factory churns out unhappy workers (Los Angeles Times)
"Ikea is a very strong brand and they lean on some kind of good Swedishness in their business profile. That becomes a complication when they act like they do in the United States."
In Iowa Meat Plant, Kosher 'Jungle' Breeds Fear, Injury, Short Pay (Forward)
Its kosher seal gives it a seeming moral imprimatur in an industry known for harsh working conditions. But even in the unhappy world of meatpacking, people with comparative knowledge of AgriProcessors and other plants — including local religious leaders, professors, and union organizers — say that AgriProcessors stands out for its poor treatment of workers.
‘It Was a Frat House’: Inside the Sex Scandal That Toppled SoFi’s C.E.O. (New York Times)
For months, the text messages came. Some were flirtatious, asking her to meet him late at night. Sometimes, the texts were sexually explicit. The messages were directed at Laura Munoz, an executive assistant at the online lending start-up Social Finance. The texts were from her boss, Mike Cagney, the company’s chief executive.
Opioid Dealers Embrace the Dark Web to Send Deadly Drugs by Mail (New York Times)
Synthetic opioids have become the fastest-growing cause of the overdose epidemic, overtaking heroin in some areas. Just a few flakes of fentanyl can be fatal. Their deadly efficiency also makes them ideal for sale on the dark net.
The Robots are Coming for Wall Street (New York Times Magazine)
Hundreds of financial analysts are being replaced with software. What office jobs are next?
ARTICLES ABOUT WALL STREET AND FINANCE
Has Wall Street Been Tamed? (New York Times Magazine)
Seven years after the financial crisis, I keep returning to this question of how much has really changed. Is the financial system any safer than when I began reporting on it?
Goldman Sachs Recasts its Reputation to Woo Tech Talent (New York Times)
The push within Goldman Sachs is a sign of how things have changed since the financial crisis. A few years back, critics of finance were wringing their hands about the high proportion of graduates from elite schools like M.I.T. who were going into finance rather than lending their talents to new start-ups.
Behind the Rise in House Prices, Wall Street Buyers (New York Times)
Large investment firms have spent billions of dollars over the last year buying homes in some of the nation’s most depressed markets. The influx has been so great, and the resulting price gains so big, that ordinary buyers are feeling squeezed out.
Small Bank in Kansas is a Financial Testing Ground (New York Times)
The bank's work is an unusual experiment: a new kind of mom-and-pop business trying to reshape a highly regulated and innovation-resistant industry.
As Fed's mortgage purchases end, eyes turn to investors (Los Angeles Times)
The government's $1.25-trillion program to prop up the housing market by purchasing mortgages came to an end Wednesday -- in a small, messy room at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York with four desks and a Nerf basketball hoop.
ARTICLES ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE
Committing to Play for a College, Then Starting 9th Grade (New York Times)
Coaches at colleges large and small flock to watch 13- and 14-year-old girls who they hope will fill out their future rosters. This is happening despite N.C.A.A. rules that appear to explicitly prohibit it.
Meet Edward Zuckerberg, tech-savvy dentist (and Mark's father) (Los Angeles Times)
Long before Mark became a billionaire and the subject of the Academy Award-winning biopic "The Social Network," his father was embracing a digital future from the confines of his small business.
A Conscious Pariah (The Nation)
Raul Hilberg and Hannah Arendt never met, in part because of his lingering bitterness toward her, but the strands of his research that she wove into her writing are only the most telling instances of the profound ways in which the two thinkers' lives and ideas were intertwined.
Ikea's U.S. factory churns out unhappy workers (Los Angeles Times)
"Ikea is a very strong brand and they lean on some kind of good Swedishness in their business profile. That becomes a complication when they act like they do in the United States."
In Iowa Meat Plant, Kosher 'Jungle' Breeds Fear, Injury, Short Pay (Forward)
Its kosher seal gives it a seeming moral imprimatur in an industry known for harsh working conditions. But even in the unhappy world of meatpacking, people with comparative knowledge of AgriProcessors and other plants — including local religious leaders, professors, and union organizers — say that AgriProcessors stands out for its poor treatment of workers.