If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.

Stein’s remark urges would-be critics of Wall Street to replace generalized outrage with concrete, document-based scrutiny. By pointing to “corporate filings,” he emphasizes that public companies already disclose extensive information, and that meaningful accountability often begins with patient, technical reading rather than slogans. The quote also frames civic action in procedural terms: identify specific misconduct (fraud), then use established channels—regulators (the SEC) or public commentary—to trigger investigation or reputational pressure. Implicitly, Stein is defending rule-of-law mechanisms and transparency as the practical way to confront financial wrongdoing, while chastising purely rhetorical or ideological attacks that do not engage the evidence.