Financial News Roundup for the Week of Feb. 4, 2018

You know it's a crazy week in the markets when Liz Claman goes on The Daily Show. 

What We've Been Reading - Week of Feb. 4

Markets & Economy:

• Machines had fingerprints all over a Dow rout for the ages (Bloomberg)
  
• The stock market didn’t get tested - you did (WSJ)
  
• Cryptocurrencies are created all the time. Meet Dogecoin. (NPR)
  
• We all have a stake in the stock market, right? Guess again (NYT)
  
• Ordinary investors didn't panic when the market plunged (Bloomberg)
  

Asset/Wealth Management:

• SEC announces 2018 exam priorities (SEC)
  
• The death of private banking (Euromoney)  
  
• InvestmentNews research and State Street Global Advisors release new study, "Women in advice: inspiring the next generation of financial advisers" (Investment News)
  
• US asset managers shake up equity research as banks cut back (Reuters)
  

Long(er) Reads:

• A video game about the death of the American mall (Bloomberg)
  
• Making a Crypto Utopia in Puerto Rico (The New York Times)
  
• How WeWork has perfectly captured the millennial id (The Atlantic)
  
• Silicon Valley's Tax-Avoiding, Job-Killing, Soul-Sucking Machine (Esquire)
  
• The Amazon-ification of Whole Foods (The Atlantic)
  

Alternatives:

• Defined contribution participants need equal access to the markets (Pensions & Investments)
  
• Hedge funds had best returns in seven years before turmoil (Bloomberg)
  

Media Industry and Journalism:

• How Bell Pottinger, P.R. Firm for Despots and Rogues, Met Its End in South Africa (The New York Times)
  
• What the Hell Is Going on at Newsweek? (The Outline)
  
• A toast to undercover journalism’s greatest coup, when reporters bought a bar (CJR)
  
• Tronc Sells The Los Angeles Times to Local Billionaire for $500 Million
  
• Vice investors are getting antsy (WSJ)
  
• Weinstein-BlackCube surveillance claims expose aggressive tactics to kill a story (Committee to Protect Journalists)