Matt Levine

Bloomberg Opinion Columnist

Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit; and an editor of Dealbreaker.

President Trump Hosts Diwali Celebration

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The FBI Found Some Insider Betting

Also Elon Musk’s robot army, prediction market volumes, snails and bees.

Tricolor Bankruptcy Sets Up Fight For Auto Lender’s Assets After Alleged Fraud

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Banks Make Loans to Non-Banks

NDFIs, Ethereum basis trades, Six Flags and snail farming.

Construction At The First Stargate AI Data Center

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OpenAI Is Building a Banker

Also abstract copper, 777 Partners, in-kind Bitcoin ETFs and the AWS outage.

Zions Bank Headquarters Ahead Of Earnings Figures

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Banks Misplaced Some Mortgages

Zions, TACO prediction markets, VikingGPT and JPMorgan HQ desk space.

Government Shutdown Begins As Trump And Democrats Negotiate On Border Wall

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Nothing Is Securities Fraud?

Shareholder arbitration, a stablecoin fat finger, hedge fund pay and Intrade efficiency.

The Allen & Co. Media And Technology Conference

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OpenAI Has a Business Plan

Also 18/5 stock trading on 24 Exchange and Nobel Prize betting on Polymarket.

Interior Secretary Burgum And Energy Secretary Wright Tour Venture Global Plaquemines LNG Export Facility

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Venture Global’s Gas Plant Is Done

Also the Nobel Peace Prize, Credit Suisse AT1s, a Grindr margin-call LBO and StockTwits alpha.

Construction At The First Stargate AI Data Center

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OpenAI Keeps Doing Deals

Also crypto liquidations, inverse levered ETFs, stock buybacks and trade secrets.

Auto-Parts Supplier First Brands Files For Bankruptcy

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First Brands Is Missing Some Money

Also MEME ETF, Bed Bath blockers and severance.

Construction At The First Stargate AI Data Center

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AI Insurance Is Expensive

P(doom), STAAR Surgical projections, Bitcoin life insurance and YouTube self-help.

SEC-CFTC Joint Roundtable On Regulatory Harmonization Opportunities

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Sports Bets at the Stock Exchange

ICE/Polymarket, pump and dumps are illegal again, AI in consulting and exploding rockets.

Construction At The First Stargate AI Data Center

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OpenAI Is Good at Deals

OpenAI/AMD, Antifraud Co., M&A scoops, World Cup tickets, Gary Gensler’s cell phone and Citadel Insecurities.

Bank of England Cuts Benchmark Interest Rate to 4%

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Stablecoins Make Banking Narrower

Also Jane Street, Thinking Machines, quantum bond trading, tokenized real estate and LinkedIn cringe.

Wilson Sporting Goods Manufacturing Facility As Football Season To Begin Amid Pandemic

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Parlay the Predictions

Also HFT and the cost of capital, sports ownership and vulnerable victims.

SAC Said to Tell Investors It Received Wells Notice From SEC

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Hedge Funds Have To Be Big

Also Tricolor, First Brands, retail SpaceX, Affinity/EA, Charlie Javice and the head of macro.

OpenAI CTO Mira Murati Says AI Will Be Your Daily Companion

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The Perfect AI Startup

Also hedge fund agents, football predictions, the EA buyout, Jimmy Kimmel and Drake.

Inauguration Of An IBM Quantum System One Quantum Computer

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Quantum Bond Trading

Also trend following, stablecoin reversals, crypto payments and free-riding.

RadioShack Climbs on Post Report It Might Be Sold

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There Was a RadioShack Ponzi

Also Tether’s valuation, crypto treasury company buybacks, strip-club bribery securities fraud and corporate rap.

Blackstone Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Schwarzman Interview

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Private Equity Is Getting Boring

Also VC competition, the DallasNews deal, AI in finance, stablecoin lending and black swans.

Inauguration Of Donald Trump As 47th President Of The United States

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Bitcoin Treasury Company M&A

Strive/Semler, FNZ, shady deals, Meta power trading, Theranos 2.0 and Anderson 2.0.