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Matt Levine

Former Goldman Sachs banker covering Wall Street, finance, and corporate law with wit.

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articles (90 days)

Recent articles

People Are Worried About Blue Owl Liquidity
Also AI disruption trades, the tariff ruling and investment banking hours.
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Insider Trading on War
Also bond indexes, 401(k) lawsuits, SpaceX SPVs and AI social engineering.
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The AI Whateverpocalypse Trade
Also defeasance and Bitcoin margin loan securitization.
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Bond Trading Gets Cheaper
Also Bithumb fat finger, Alphabet century bond and California blackjack.
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Predicting the Big Game
Also Messiah manipulation, AI ads, crypto winter, Tether KYC and AI audits.
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Five Bananas Won’t Pay the Rent
Bilt, fast-track indexes, Kalshi insider trading and Bitcoin’s slide.
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Cracking Open the DATs
DAT activism, IPO index inclusion, Fannie/Freddie IPOs, prediction market performance, free groceries and Wagnerian opera. 
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Musk’s Moonshot Merger
SpaceX/xAI, OpenAI’s blue skies, SaaSpocalypse, CBOE binaries and Indonesian floats.
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Musk Mars Merger, Maybe
Data centers, killer AI is securities fraud, CFTC sports regulations and art history.
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First Brands Did Some Round Trips
Also AI cat bonds, SpaceX IPO plans and finance clubs.
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The Stars Are Aligned for SpaceX
Astrology, ADM Nutrition, M&A competition, AI employee benefits and neolabs.
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The Killer Non-Acquisition
Also sports/financial journalism, Kirkland & Ellis, pivot to prediction markets and GameStop’s accretive dilution.
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Private Credit Marks Will Matter
Also debanking, Hycroft Mining, and Magic: The Gathering.
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FTX Does Some Effective Altruism
Also private credit liquidity, 10b5-1 abuse, Thinking Machines and Musk vs. O’Leary.
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Moonshot Pay Kind of Works
Also the Bleebzorx Network, alleged takeover tricks, securitization rules and robot collusion.
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Memecoin Venture Capital
$GAS Bags, 24/7 trading, LinkedIn ghosts and GLP-1s.
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Stablecoin Narrow Banking
Stablecoin interest, covenant-lite private credit, a MrBeast DAT pivot and AI data centers are securities fraud.
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Wall Street Wants Predictors
Also stock buyback bans and memecoin rug pulls.
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Fake Cancer Doctor Insider Trading
Also a Kelly Services poison pill and betting on roosters.
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Paramount Wants Warner to Show Its Work
Also Medicare Advantage, Captain Condor and congressional trading.
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MoviePass Is Back With Betting
Also a DAT SPAC, bomb bets and mispriced parlays.
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The AI Will Vote the Shares
Proxy IQ, on-cycle recruiting, First Brands, Warner Bros. and German dentists.
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Predict Your House Price
Also Crystallex/Citgo, the revenge of the banks and the Pod Shop Game.
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Everybody Wants Some AI Debt
Private credit liquidity, Tesla pay, keeping the simulation interesting, Venezuela bets, Hunterbrook and corporate rap.
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Trump Media Discovers Nuclear Fusion
Also Tricolor, First Brands, vending machines and holiday videos.
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Warner Doesn’t Trust Paramount
Revocable trusts, ESG side letters, IPO lockups, Destiny and doing deals over the holidays.
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Fake Trading Is Hard Work
Prop trading, non-bank lending, IPO pricing, crypto treasury and Epstein’s wealth.
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The Video of Dumb Investment
South Korean retail investors, insider predicting, vesting cliffs, quant secrecy and crashing recruiting events.
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