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Matt Levine

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

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Shorts Will Sell You SpaceX
Also the Korean leveraged ETF ban, buyside alpha capture, Kalshi drug trial markets and a Truth Social API.
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Keeping Mergers Under the Radar
HSR, IPO wealth, SpaceX lockups, Apollo and debanking/rebanking.
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Banks Made a Lot of Money on Stocks
Equities revenue, debanking, a public utility LBO, spitting upwards and an alleged cocaine SPAC.
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ETFs Are for Bets
Mets ETFs, TXSE listings, Bending Spoons HR quants and failed AI pivots.
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Sports Gambling ETF
Also an insider trader and a chicken-to-AI pivot.
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Leave the Oil in the Pipes
Also ex-Elon ETFs, Egg Libor, middle-market banking and fundraising agents.
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GameStop Has Enough Stock Now
Also merger arb, SRT insurance, World Cup hedging, Polymarket refunds and index rebalance windfalls.
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Index Traders Had a Good Month
Rebalancing, the Strategy pivot and the AI-to-EA pipeline.
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Untruth Machines
Botting, memecoins, puts, private credit, emerging markets and bowling.
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Tricking the AI Investors
Homoglyphs, business negging, private bonds, BDCs, Bitcoin binaries, kamikaze drones and a DAT-to-AI pivot.
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Egg Libor Was Also Manipulated
Eggs.org, the Susquehanna insider trading lawsuit, prediction market culture and sports gambling ETFs.
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Susquehanna Sold Some Suspicious Puts
Also Millennium AI, Elliott cubs, the Stretch run and a SpaceX IPO misunderstanding.
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People Are Worried About Stock Market Leverage
Also SPV blockchain, private credit BNPL, semiliquid fees and dinosaur stomping.
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There’s a SpaceX Treasury Company
SPV-cubed, hedge fund AI bots, monthly liquidity, SpaceTeslaX and a big lint roller.
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Insider Trading Isn't Romantic
Also Meta’s Arena prediction market, the inevitable Tesla/SpaceX merger, a robot SPAC and SK Hynix ADRs. 
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Short Squeeze as a Service
Avis, SpaceX ESG, carried interest loans, Bain vibecoding and a prediction market index.
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Poiymarket Has Some Fake Traders
Also SpaceX bonds, sports alt data, Stretch and selling high.
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Synthetic IPO Pops
Also alpha capture, a football bet income strategy and good dogs.
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The New Bird Is Smartbird
Also buying the wrong stocks, SBF’s prison gaming, Bridgewater shareholders and the CIA gold heist.
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AI Builds Some Pyramids
Also prediction market indexing, Strategy resolution, Caymans appraisal, the Cursor deal and poisoning the well of information.
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The Stock Market Will Get More Stock
Re-equitization, the perfect SpaceX pop, Ken Griffin and Nubank’s non-liquidation.
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SpaceX Priced Already
Private markets are the new public markets, SpaceX miscellany, the trade-through rule, closed-end fund activism and Kraftwerk alpha.
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You Can’t Bet on Little League
Federal sports betting regulation, IPO list-keeping, an expanding stock market and questionable league-table rankings.
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You Can Just Not Buy SpaceX
Exit and voice, pod-shop alpha capture, AI for fund documents, retraining metaverse engineers as electricians and natural sports risk. 
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No SpaceX in the S&P
Universal basic AI, startup markups, ETF taxes and relegation hedging.
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Get Your SpaceX Bets in Now
Pre-IPO futures, prediction market prime brokerage, George Santos bets and direct indexing.
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Opting Out of the AI Boom
Also Ferrari financing, alpha capture, fixed IPO pricing, GameStop capital allocation and AI toilets.
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Google Needs More Money
Also residual value guarantees, Andrew Left and hedging bar tabs on Kalshi. 
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The SpaceX Squeeze
Fast track index demand, Universal activism/M&A and abandoned Bitcoins.
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The Bitcoin Lost-and-Found
Finders Keepers on the blockchain, committing to deleveraging, insider trading on Polymarket and AI-enabled analyst hiring.
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