In Black Edge, Sheelah Kolhatkar Documents More Than Wall Street Crime

As Black Edge author Sheelah Kolhatkar looks at the financial universe, there is a noticeable disturbance in the force. While Wall Street was at one time a society built upon partner capital and a fundamental economic mission, a new ethos has arrived. In many respects, this is on display in the seemingly gaudy display of power being exhibited by Steven A. Cohen. The founder of now defunct SAC Capital currently runs free, opening up a new hedge fund after enduring a grueling insider trading scandal that put those under his employ in jail. Such problems don’t appear to bother Cohen, who avoided both a New York FBI interrogation and criminal insider trading charges in the widely watched case...