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Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other

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Re: Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other

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Post by jskdvsksnb »

tuna-piano wrote: post #26

Thoughts: -I love reading Matt's stuff. The praise of his writing is totally deserving. -In my daily life there's rarely a topic I come across that I'm unable to understand. In an otherwise boring day full of mundane work tasks, his column gives me intellectual challenges that I really appreciate. -Matt's ability to understand and synthesize topics reflects incredibly highly on his intellect. I don't know anyone on W…

The Bloomberg website is 100% a vanity/halo project that makes Bloomberg (the man) and Bloomberg (the company) seem relevant. The terminal business is such a cash cow that they can easily afford to bankroll journalism to maintain their brand and mindshare.

Re: Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other

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Post by QuesnayJr »

alea_iacta_est wrote: post #50
QuesnayJr wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have no idea what this means.

The rule is if you don't know what's a normie, you're probably one :)

Dude, I know what a normie is. Everyone (or at least everyone on HN) knows what a normie is.

I don't know what evidence there is that Matt Levine not a normie at his core, or how it show up in his writing.

Re: Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other

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Post by eine_zwei »

Agree with all the praise. However, reading him long enough, I started to get annoyed with the blase approach to the Wall Street(tm) transgressions.

I do not think it is a case of pandering to your audience. The following quote (about his time in Dealbreaker) captures it perfectly:

>Part of the problem was that he couldn’t really access a contempt for Wall Street titans. He was of the place, and he found its workings genuinely interesting.

I am in the industry.

It's a missed opportunity, IMHO. It is easy to dismiss some uniformed politician criticizing your industry norms. Much harder when it's coming from someone who clearly understand what is going on.

Re: Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other

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Post by boogies »

bko wrote: post #49
phasetransition wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh right, I forget that the people in finance day to day are accessing via the terminal.

You can also access the Bloomberg website and disable javascript and the article will load. Most adblockers have a disable javascript for this page feature

(Also, I believe all normal browsers allow disabling javascript in the devtool settings — my adblocker doesn’t because it’s just /etc/hosts.)

Re: Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other

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Post by thedufer »

tuna-piano wrote: post #26

Thoughts: -I love reading Matt's stuff. The praise of his writing is totally deserving. -In my daily life there's rarely a topic I come across that I'm unable to understand. In an otherwise boring day full of mundane work tasks, his column gives me intellectual challenges that I really appreciate. -Matt's ability to understand and synthesize topics reflects incredibly highly on his intellect. I don't know anyone on W…

> -I would really love a weekly Matt Levine podcast. But sadly I don't think we'll ever get that.

I don't know that you do. I've found him to be a much better writer than speaker - the content was similar (brilliant, funny, interesting, etc) but his spoken delivery simply isn't very good, and where do you put a footnote in a podcast?

Re: Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other

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Post by Mvandenbergh »

eine_zwei wrote: post #53

Agree with all the praise. However, reading him long enough, I started to get annoyed with the blase approach to the Wall Street(tm) transgressions. I do not think it is a case of pandering to your audience. The following quote (about his time in Dealbreaker) captures it perfectly: >Part of the problem was that he couldn’t really access a contempt for Wall Street titans. He was of the place, and he found its workings…

On the other hand, is there a lack of writing about finance with lots of contempt and anger? Matt Taibbi may not be an insider in the way that Levine is but he (and others) often manage to be fairly well informed and they are certainly contemptuous and angry.

I also wonder if to understand is not, in some inevitable sense, to forgive? Is it really possible to fully understand on an emotional level how a quant trader feels when they spot an arbitrage opportunity and be angry about it?

Re: Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other

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Post by tc313 »

bko wrote: post #49
phasetransition wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh right, I forget that the people in finance day to day are accessing via the terminal.

You can also access the Bloomberg website and disable javascript and the article will load. Most adblockers have a disable javascript for this page feature

An easy way to do this on iOS Safari is to “Show Reader View” after clicking on any Bloomberg article.

Re: Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other

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Post by humanlion87 »

sabana wrote: post #43
phasetransition wrote: post #25

I'm surprised that there's only around 150k people (other than me) who read the newsletter. I don't work in finance, always enjoy reading Matt, and often learn. To that end, if you don't subscribe to him and want a sample to consider joining the free newsletter, let me suggest his column "Arbitrage Discovered" from 2015: https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/articles/2015-02-27/ar...

How does one sign up for his free newsletter?

Just as an FYI, he is on parental leave right now. So the newsletter is in pause mode for a few months.
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