Man I love it when the NyTimes covers such brave and useful topics as.... new york financial reporting.
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
#92I'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...
only 150k? that's seems like huge for something which is almost a niche. How many people subscribe to newsletters? on these people how many are interested about the opinion of one guy on the details of market finance?
If you mean email newsletters generally, my own biggest is 172k but I know folks like The Skimm or the Morning Brew run into low millions of subs. A lot of it is down to how valuable and targeted the audience is and this guy is clearly winning on that front.
Re: Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
> -Matt's ability to understand and synthesize topics reflects incredibly highly on his intellect. I don't know anyone on Wall Street... is his level of intellect common among investment bankers and such there? Investment banker here.. "Wall Street" is a pretty big concept, not unlike "Silicon Valley". So in the best banks and the best groups, yes – I'd say he's among the very best, but there are plenty of similarly…
Matt's said before that he reached a certain point at GS where he was expected to get more involved in sales, as opposed to just the structuring side of his desk, and felt he was quite bad at it. Probably quite a bit of self depreciation on Matt's part though given that when he decided to quit his boss essentially said, "Why don't you just, you know, take some time off to think about it?" I'd say someone with Matt's…
Thanks for the insight. My perspective is from the M&A side which can be a little bit different / less boring (or at least I like to tell myself so)
Re: Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other
#94I really enjoy his writing, which is why I really want to know what this might be: "Asked about the Etruscans, Mr. Levine said he thought Mr. Mystal might be referring to one of his favorite anecdotes from Herodotus. It was actually about the Persians, he said. He fetched his copy of “The Histories” and read it to me.)"
From a section on Persian customs, somewhere in 130-135 of book one (which is as precise as my copy gets): “If an important decision is to be made, they discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house where the discussion was held submits their decision for reconsideration when they are sober. If they still approve it, it is adopted; if not, it is abandoned. Conversely, any dec…
The interview should have done an homage footnote with this. Can't believe they missed the opportunity.
Re: Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can also add a ‘.’ after the TLD to bypass the block for any Bloomberg article: https://www.bloomberg.com./path-to-article
that's amazing, do you know why it works?
The dot after the TLD represents the root domain. From right to left, URLs read from least to most specific. Root -> TLD -> domain -> subdomain (eg www). The root domain is almost always left out, because it’s always the same and its presence is implied. But if you include it explicitly, it is a distinct URL.
So idk how bloomberg.com works under the hood so I can’t specifically explain this case, but rules that match URLs won’t necessarily see the two versions as identical. This is actually something worth testing your own sites against, to make sure including the root domain doesn’t do something dumb like bypass authentication or whatever.
Edit: also, forgive me if I’m explaining things you already know w/ regard to the root domain and stuff.
Re: Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other
#96Does anyone know of an equivalent newsletter that covers European markets?
Re: Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other
#97I like his newsletter but I think Matt Taibbi was much better at explaining complex finance transactions
Any recommended readings by him?
Re: Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other
#98Really enjoyed this, hasn't heard of him before. Just subscribed to his newsletter. Thanks for posting!
You may have gotten this from other comments, but he is on leave right now, so you'll have to wait a little longer before you start getting those juicy daily musings.
Re: Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other
#99I like his newsletter but I think Matt Taibbi was much better at explaining complex finance transactions
Any recommended readings by him?
This is probably his most famous:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-grea...
Re: Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other
#100I have missed Matt's columns since he went on parental leave.
Does anyone have recommendations for anything similar to scratch that itch?