Latest news from Matt Levine

Date Headline Description #
23-Oct-2024 Be Careful Tweeting About Stocks Also XTB CFDs, credit-card customer service and pharmaceutical code names. Request summary
22-Oct-2024 The Sophisticated Investor Test Also WisdomTree greenwashing, Dish bondholders, biotech/blockchain casinos and EY continuing education multitasking. Request summary
21-Oct-2024 Who Owns OpenAI? Also Jefferies, Susquehanna, fake recruiting calls and fake SEC tweets. Request summary
17-Oct-2024 Musk Keeps Paying for X Also Goatseus Maximus, World Liberty Financial, Citadel employee ownership, common lending, bribes and meal allowances. Request summary
16-Oct-2024 Activist Investors Are Podcasters Now Also double ETFs, private credit is the new public credit, the block-trade penalty box and adding clients on LinkedIn. Request summary
15-Oct-2024 Pumping the Magic Mushrooms Also Tether as the global reserve currency, cat bond basis risk, nuclear reactor financing and sports latency arbitrage. Request summary
14-Oct-2024 TD Was Convenient for Criminals Also private equity plumbing, public-market OpenAI, VistaJet and ultra-high-net-worth breakpoints. Request summary
10-Oct-2024 Crypto Market Makers Made Some Markets Wash trading, election arbitrage, TreasuryDirect.gov, NDA waivers and investment banking hours. Request summary
9-Oct-2024 A Trump Trade Arbitrage Election cops, HSR filings, structured credit integration, TXSE listing standards, AI and CPAs. Request summary
8-Oct-2024 Some of the Carbon Credits Were Fake Also FTX recoveries, ETF taxation, a big estate tax and Costco gold. Request summary
7-Oct-2024 Retail Investor Had Too Much Tesla Also exotic ETFs, Jane Street opacity, portfolio trades, Costco gold and the ‘head of macro’ guy. Request summary
3-Oct-2024 Private Credit Wants Everyone’s Money Also destructive competition, OpenAI exclusivity and PayPal stablecoins. Request summary
2-Oct-2024 Dish Bondholders Don’t Want a Haircut Also UniCredit’s Commerzbank hedges and a FanDuel VIP. Request summary
1-Oct-2024 Insider Trader Had All the Answers Also secret friendships, ad hoc bondholder groups, tweeting material news, Mango Markets and securities fraud settlements are securities fraud. Request summary
30-Sep-2024 Look Like a Loser, Then Win Also Dish sold for a dollar, Sam Altman’s negging, a dentist’s tax shelter, PE recruiting, blockchain for DTCC and business-class bribery. Request summary
26-Sep-2024 Private Credit and Banks Team Up Also OpenAI’s restructuring and Eric Adams. Request summary
25-Sep-2024 Masimo Has a New Boss Proxy fights, private equity operations, more cell phone fines and ESG pay. Request summary
24-Sep-2024 The Chatbot Will Pick the Stocks Also cocoa, voting and Hunterbrook. Request summary
23-Sep-2024 UniCredit Did a Commerzbank Trade Swaps, collars, Citi Bike, biblically responsible investing and texting regulators about work. Request summary
12-Sep-2024 Bankers’ Hours Are Still Pretty Bad Also Murdoch voting rights, OpenAI financing and index inclusion. Request summary
16-Sep-2024 IPOs Are About the Future Projections, OpenWeb, Commerzbank and several rules of insider trading. Request summary
17-Sep-2024 Archegos’ Banks Had Some Chats Antitrust, private credit, muni-bond texting and World Liberty Financial. Request summary
18-Sep-2024 There’s a Robot Warren Buffett ETF Also Steve Cohen stops trading, Ryan Cohen forgot to do HSR, FTX’s audit wasn’t great and don’t text about work. Request summary
19-Sep-2024 23andMe Is Just ‘Me’ Now Also EF Hutton, Avon CDS and pig butchering. Request summary