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Matt Levine

Bloomberg Opinion Columnist

Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit; and an editor of Dealbreaker.

Key Speakers At Global Financial Leaders' Investment Summit

Money Stuff

Brokers Have Some Good Ideas

President Trump Announces New Tariffs In Rose Garden Speech

Money Stuff

The Tariffs Are Illegal

Also an ESG matrix, endowment tax trades, disqualified lender lists and brain popping realizations.

FHFA Chief Ends Program Designed To Help First-Time Homebuyers

Money Stuff

Fannie and Freddie Get a Guarantee

Also endowment taxes, DJT and Gamestop Bitcoin treasuries and Bitcoin theft.

Views Of Quebec's Largest City As Canadian Consumer Confidence Figures Are Released

Money Stuff

Sell Your Crypto on the Stock Exchange

SharpLink, Mango Markets, DJ D-Sol and the Trumpcoin dinner.

Traders On The Floor Of The NYSE As US Assets Sink Anew as Wall Street Unrest Builds

Money Stuff

Index Funds Are a Bit More Illegal

Also tariffs are securities fraud, Chinese Trumpcoin treasury companies and startup exits as a service.

SEC Chair Paul Atkins Testifies Before House Appropriations Subcommittee

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Asset-Backed Crypto Token Wasn’t

Also retail private rooms and pope house eminent domain.

Y Combinator Co-Founder Garry Tan Interview On The Circuit

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Get Your Research From an AI Video

Also Hong Kong pension funds’ Treasury holdings, private credit in the pitchbook and the Trumpcoin dinner record date.

US House Committees To Begin Debate On Trump Tax Cuts On Tuesday

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US Debt Rates Itself

Also conditional TARFs, $5 wrench attacks and Pest Control Stuff.

Opening Day Of World Economic Forum (WEF) 2025

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Coinbase Got Hacked a Little

Also billionaire league tables, money laundering bid/ask spreads, Pete Rose and an Elon Musk compensation trade.

President Trump Holds Cabinet Meeting

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Elon Musk Needs More Options

Also floating warehouses, tariffs in court, Credit Suisse bonuses and 401(k) leverage.

Housing Ahead Of Mortgage Applications Figures

Money Stuff

Mortgage Your 401(k)

Also more Bitcoin treasury companies, carbon credit disputes and college finance clubs.

Luigi Mangione Appears In Court To Face NY State Murder Charges

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Is Murder Securities Fraud?

Also retail private equity and secondaries, Trump Media accounting, chatbot insurance, pope bets and tax snails

Zuckerberg Defends Strategy Behind Instagram, WhatsApp Deals

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Meta Will Make Friends

Also liability management exercises, crypto convertibles and not enough desks.

Mehmet Oz Sworn In As Administrator Of The Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services

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Medicaid Taxes Pay for Themselves

Also tariff loans, OpenAI/Microsoft and stock buybacks.

Key Speakers at the AI Action Summit in Paris

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OpenAI Will Get A Bit More Normal

Also public-private funds, everything is securities fraud and $MELANIA.

Inside The Berkshire Hathaway Annual General Meeting

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Warren Buffett Took the Long View

Also hedge fund gates, private credit timing and a Trumpcoin treasury company.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Interview On The Circuit

Money Stuff

Can You Blame the Chatbots?

Defamation, piracy, Tesla’s CEO search, Worldcoin and a Ponzi.

Trump Tariffs Risk $29,000 Rise In US Home Building Costs

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ESG Isn’t Hiring

Also investment banking chatbots, a grim pizza party, a bad investor meeting, retail-ish private equity and a souvenir flattened penny arbitrage.

Key Speakers At Bloomberg Invest

Money Stuff

The New Market Is Public-Private

Also AI rollups, shareholder proposals and the X debt.

Turkish Markets Nosedive After Erdogan’s Main Rival Detained

Money Stuff

Argentex Got Some Margin Calls

Zero-zero lines, Deel vs. Rippling II, crypto enforcement, XAI and teens with Lambos.