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Matt Levine

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

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Recent articles

Private Markets Are the New AI Markets
Also daily private credit marks, prime brokerage and agentic regulation.
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Bank of America Missed Some Bad Guys
AML, debanking, an OpenAI spy, lawyer pay and running inference on a toaster.
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They Found Some Walter Victims
Also indexed annuities, Martin Shkreli contempt, non-swap sports bets and retail options.
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Don’t Bet Against the Sports Bets
Also parking-lot data centers, BDC arbitrage, Hood Summit and Midnight Madness.
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Pre-IPO Perpetual Futures Swap ETF
Corgi MANGOS, prime brokerage, longshot predictions and AGM buffet arbitrage.
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ESG Gets More Illegal
Also private equity in 401(k)s and data centers somewhere in the universe.
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Treasury Futures Might Switch
Also defeasance, sports gambling as an investment strategy and post-human securities fraud.
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Mergers and Acqui-hires
Groq, Anthropic charitable pay, two-year analyst programs and train fare.
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Opening Private Markets to the Public
Performance fees, accredited investor tests, default shareholder voting and Knicks-Rangers deconglomeration.
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AI Agents Will Pay Attention
Also the Man City charges, cotton trade prints and investment bank apprenticeship.
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Is Existential Risk Securities Fraud?
Also agentic bank runs, 351 ETFs and abandoned Nvidia options. 
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Banks Recycle the Risk
Also Nvidia’s buyback, Automattic intrigue and agentic sports betting.
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Morgan Stanley Leaked Some Deals
Pipelines, force majeure, private equity malaise, credit card risk tranching, egg futures, and Medicaid gambling.
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Kalshi Levers the Predictions
Also Muse overcomes inertia, the AI factor, 14a-8 proposals and pool servicing.
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Who Cares If a Merger Is Fair?
Appraisal, problem gamblers, Steak ’n Shake and World Liberty.
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The Whole Indian Options Trade Was Too Good
Also compute futures manipulation, AI Ebitda add-backs and AI safety stereotypes.
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BlackRock Wants Pensions
Also Robinhood crypto insider traders, Epstein tax advice and a fifth-grade investment banker.
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Not All the Susquehanna Puts Were Bad
Also prediction market smart beta, stablecoin arbs and dopamine sites.
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AI Labs Want Someone to Stop Them
AI and antitrust, lockups and indexes, annuities, Montessori and sudden wealth syndrome.
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Dallas Gets Some Equities
TXSE, Hudson River Trading, AI riches, Tether lending and Magic insider trading.
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AAA AI
AI lab ratings, hourly levered ETFs, Treasury selling Treasury futures and egg fines.
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Robinhood Tokenized AMC
Also the Apollo premium, a pension revival and a laptop meme coin.
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The Clippers Got Some Consulting
Also DAT activism empty voting and Jeffrey Epstein’s tax art.
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The ETF Dividend Flip
Also law firm economics, college football booster hedging and billionaire coin flipping.
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Amazon Charged the First Price
Vickrey auctions, a GoPro meme merger and Kalshi gamblers.
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Don’t Hedge the KPIs
KPI hedging, KPI insider trading, leveraged ETF education and seized Anthropic shares.
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AI Refi
Also evergreen funds and pod-shop gazumping.
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Predict the KPIs
Also more TWG and a wedding toast.
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LeBron Bonds
Mark Walter, Situational Awareness subpoenas, AI lab loans.
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Who Should Control Anthropic?
Also the leveraged ETF rebalancing trade, insider trading at the Duke game, AI interns and resume interests.
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