Weekly Financial News Roundup for the Week of Jan. 21, 2018

What We've Been Reading - Week of Jan. 21

Markets & Economy:

• Let Me Tell You Some More About Bitcoin—Hello? Hello? (Wall Street Journal)
  
• Where Would Stocks Be Now if Hillary Clinton Were President? (Wall Street Journal)
  
• PwC CEO report: Looking to the future with optimism and anxiety (PwC)
  
• The rise of the contract workers (NPR Special Series)
  
• NYSE and NASDAQ fight CBOE to keep grip on stock market close (WSJ)​
  

Long(er) Reads:

• My Ten-Year Odyssey Through America’s Housing Crisis (The Wall Street Journal)
  
• Improving Workplace Culture, One Review at a Time (The New Yorker)
  
• Beyond the Bitcoin bubble (NYT Magazine)
  
• Your Smartphone Could be Fueling the Latin American Drug Trade and Terrorism (Newsweek)
  

Alternatives:

• How hedge funds (secretly) get their way in Washington (Bloomberg Businessweek)
  

Media Industry and Journalism:

• HuffPost, breaking from its roots, ends unpaid contributions (NYT)
  
• How to win founders and influence everybody (Wired)