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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?
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…
I enjoy his column particularly because he talks about all of this scheming and maneuvering in a straightforward and neutral way. I can decide for myself if something is immoral or offensive or whatever, I don’t need my news sources to decide that for me.
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I enjoy his column particularly because he talks about all of this scheming and maneuvering in a straightforward and neutral way. I can decide for myself if something is immoral or offensive or whatever, I don’t need my news sources to decide that for me.
The reality is that media helps define what is normative and what is not. Describing bad behaviour and abuse of the law, without calling it out as bad, helps normalize it. Matt Levine's columns often goes one step beyond the "neutral way". They often describe them as cool ingenious schemes done by smart people.
That's why people watch heist movies and play GTA, too.
Not sure Matt Levine has the power to change what is perceived as cool by western culture.
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You can also add a ‘.’ after the TLD to bypass the block for any Bloomberg article: https://www.bloomberg.com./path-to-article
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Mind sharing (or linking to) the story of why he wrote ahout you?
Securities fraud. I have linked it below. There are a few other articles where I am mentioned in passing or via hyperlink. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-05-22/fitbit...
https://blog.plover.com/ref/money-stuff.html
I said "Almost every issue teaches me something interesting I didn't know, and almost every issue makes me laugh" and I showed four examples. If you're looking for a quick intro to what he's like, maybe check it out.
He's still on paternity leave but I hope he'll return soon.
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An easy way to do this on iOS Safari is to “Show Reader View” after clicking on any Bloomberg article.
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…
I can't fault him for being a bit "over-neutral", for lack of a better way to put it. It's how economists are trained to express themselves and, more importantly, I don't think he'd ever get a fawning piece written about him by the fNYT if he took the approach of, say, a certain other gifted writer whose name cannot be spoken here.
from this profile, Matt is very probably underpaid vs his earning potential (probably at least an order of magnitude) and should leave to substack or his own operation. but I respect that money really isn't everything.