Latest news from Matt Levine

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19-Dec-2024 Private Credit Wants to Be the Bank Also failed M&A, OpenAI restructuring and Bitcoin adoption. Request summary
18-Dec-2024 Insider Trading in Private Companies Also big activist funds and Azoria Meritocracy. Request summary
17-Dec-2024 Albertsons Is Mad at Kroger Also SpaceX employee margin loans, alternative asset manager mergers and Bitcoin as a Trump straddle. Request summary
16-Dec-2024 Elon Musk Heard From the SEC Also duplicating the MicroStrategy trade, buffer ETFs and hedge funds, Masayoshi Son’s $100 billion commitment and snorting Adderall in the bullpen. Request summary
12-Dec-2024 People Really Want SpaceX Shares SPVs, insider trading on getting fired, Target Pride securities fraud, Riot Platforms and impersonating a stockbroker. Request summary
11-Dec-2024 The Onion Can’t Buy Infowars Yet Also the Macy’s oopsie and the Hawk Tuah memecoin. Request summary
5-Dec-2024 MicroStrategy Has Volatility to Sell Also Kiromic, fake insider betting and the optimal amount of bribery. Request summary
4-Dec-2024 Citi Traders Didn’t Know the Rules High-touch trading, books as leading indicators, HPS pay and memecoins. Request summary
3-Dec-2024 Elon Still Can’t Get His Money Tornetta, empty voting, tricking an AI bot into sending you money and mining Bitcoins on planes. Request summary
2-Dec-2024 Texas Asks If Index Funds Are Illegal Common ownership, MicroStrategy ETFs, World Liberty Financial and Enron 2.0. Request summary
26-Nov-2024 Some Wamco Trades Were Better Than Others Cherry-picking, quant contests, hairy private wealth clients, in-seat promotions, a DJT business model and the head of mar Request summary
25-Nov-2024 Synapse Still Can’t Find Its Money Also UPS impairment, Macy’s small package deliveries, AQR TA Delphi Plus, Tether and Pink Floyd. Request summary
21-Nov-2024 Adani Green Didn’t Mention the Bribes Also rated feeders, AllHere fraud, expensive banana and AI on the blockchain. Request summary
20-Nov-2024 Short Squeezes Are Legal Now Also checking glitches, risk parity ETFs and Jane Street pay nondisclosure. Request summary
19-Nov-2024 Insider Trading at the Fed Also empty voting, anti-merger arbitrage and AI in earnings calls. Request summary
18-Nov-2024 Palantir Delivers the Tendies Also MicroStrategy, data center financing and significant risk transfers. Request summary
14-Nov-2024 Individual Investors Put Up the Cash Private equity deployment, NAV loans squared, hidden data, a Polymarket raid and X/DJT merger math. Request summary
13-Nov-2024 Trump’s DOGE Is Good for Dogecoin Also private-market alpha, Destiny Tech100 is back and not getting enough meat in your burrito is securities fraud. Request summary
12-Nov-2024 Merger Trading Will Get Easier Also some bad FTX loans, a late greenwashing case and Fed chair precedents. Request summary