Financial News Roundup for the Week of Aug. 20, 2017

What We've Been Reading - Week of Aug. 20

Markets & Economy:

• Identity thieves stealing cellphone numbers to go after digital currencies (NYT)
  
• The fantasy of Silicon Valley (The Week)
  
• With Alumni in the White House, Goldman sees an opening (FT)
  
• Chevron CEO John Watson to Step Down (WSJ)
  
• Investor doubts grow over e-commerce subscriptions (Bloomberg)
  

Asset/Wealth Management:

• Dalio cuts risk among rising turmoil in Washington (Reuters)
  

Long(er) Reads:

• Carl Icahn's Failed Raid on Washington (The New Yorker)
  
• This is how sexism works in Silicon Valley (New York Magazine)
  

Alternatives:

• How Firms Fight Back Against Activists (Institutional Investor)
  
• Terra Firma’s potential investors insist on tight restrictions (FT)
  
• Private Equity and VC Investors Pile Into Eastern Europe (II)
  
• SoftBank and Fund to Invest $4.4 Billion in WeWork (NYT)
  
• Private-equity returns can be replicated with public shares (The Economist)
  
• Hedge fund managers not optimistic about 2nd half of 2017: Industry survey (CNBC.com)
  
• Private equity fundraising hits post-crisis high (FT)​
  

Media Industry and Journalism:

• Is the New York Times vs. The Washington Post vs. Trump the last great newspaper war? (Vanity Fair)
  
• Lou Dobbs Tonight and Fox Business continue to beat CNBC (The Hill)
  
• WSJ editor admonishes reporters over trump coverage (NYT)