Latest news from Matt Levine

Date Headline Description #
25-Mar-2025 Private Markets Get More Public Also equity funding costs, buying the dip, Endeavor, litigation funding arbitrage and accountant narcissism.  Request summary
24-Mar-2025 There’s a Stock Exchange for Lawsuits Litigation finance, Endeavor closed, 23andMe went bankrupt, insider trading selfies, Swiss bank accounts and lottery winners. Request summary
20-Mar-2025 Netflix Producer Traded Instead Also personalized deposit rates, QXO buys Beacon Roofing, ‘my car cost more than this’ and a lottery winner. Request summary
19-Mar-2025 Everyone Wants Debt, Not Equity Dividend recaps, hedge fund analysts, TD Bank AML, Goldman Sachs succession, X valuation, perpetual strife and lottery financial engineering. Request summary
18-Mar-2025 Strategy Sells Perpetual Strife Also lottery ETFs, investment bank staffers, 24/5 clearing and AI that sells itself. Request summary
17-Mar-2025 Spies in the Sales Slack Also Chevron merger arbitrage, private rooms in dark pools and art liquidations. Request summary
13-Mar-2025 You Need Regulators to Deregulate Also private-credit restructuring capacity, Binance World Liberty and watch correlation. Request summary
12-Mar-2025 Investment Bankers Don’t Work for Free Also the American Dream mall is open, coal companies as climate solutions and round-number stock prices. Request summary
11-Mar-2025 Hedge Funds Need to Know the Weather Also private credit liquidity, yellow pine futures, Polymarket regulatory entrepreneurship and symbolically significant desks. Request summary
10-Mar-2025 Arbs Want to Appraise Endeavor Also a QXO/Beacon deal, a walnut investment vehicle and a Neom update. Request summary
6-Mar-2025 Steak Dinners Sell ETFs First Trust, Aspiration Partners, Millennium equity and Bitcoin reserves. Request summary
5-Mar-2025 There Was a Texas Lottery Arbitrage Also 23andMe’s board dynamics, Bio-Techne’s stock options and Goldman’s vice presidents. Request summary
4-Mar-2025 Citi Hit Another Wrong Button Also the big four hedge funds, memecoins are not securities, the CFPB gives up on Capital One and betting on the pope. Request summary
3-Mar-2025 Citi Keeps Hitting the Wrong Buttons Also losing a billion dollars is cool, CEO personal conduct, the crypto strategic reserve, State Street vs. BlackRock and structured finance is also cool. Request summary
27-Feb-2025 Buy Infowars for the Memes Also asking questions about Tesla, bribing auditors and Never Alone Capital. Request summary
26-Feb-2025 Robots Will Write the Macro Forecasts Also BlackRock’s DEI-linked loans, Tesla’s related-party accounting and AI resumes for junior bankers. Request summary
25-Feb-2025 The Job Is Service But the Goal Is Monetization Also Elon Musk’s SEC case and wearables data for insurance. Request summary
24-Feb-2025 JPMorgan Wants to Lend Companies Money Also Adderall causes insider trading, predicting startup funding, pig butchering a bank and the executive vice chairman of Cantor Fitzgerald is also a DJ. Request summary