"The Financial Page"...yeah, really.

I have never been one to be drawn to the financial articles in major magazines. Very little about the financial world interests me, much to the dismay of my hedge-fund-manager-financial-district-dwelling father. However, having spent a significant amount of time pounding the pavement on the streets of many major cities (New York, Seattle, SF, Boston, Barcelona, Rome, etc) and having seen countless street vendors peddling their knockoff handbags from dirty bedsheets on the sidewalk, this week's "financial" article in the New Yorker interested me. "The Piracy Paradox" talks about the prevalance of knockoff goods in todays market. While touching on everything from Fior sunglasses to the popular store H&M, the article discusses the surprisingly symbiotic relationship between high end designers and their cheap counterparts. The article makes for an interesting read for any teenage girl who thinks, as I did, that she wants nothing to do with the financial world.