Matt Levine’s Money Stuff

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The power of files, everyone pic.twitter.com/idOPlSGqQc

— Aaron Levie (@levie) January 15, 2023

come on

me when i have exactly 2 to the 20th chums

I love the crime dial concept.

It’s a very effective explanation

"Kicking the nickel" should enter the global lexicon as shorthand for checking that digital realm stuff, when it's expected to be actually real, is actually real in the non-digital world. Endless uses...

love matt

I still don't get finance but I would very much like Levine to write a book to explain it to me instead of (I guess along with) dribbing and drabbing bits of it every time someone makes an oopsy.

idk i hope he never writes a book and just does the newsletter forever. i would buy a huge collect money stuff multi-volume set tho

also... dribs and drabs? it's a firehose to the face

i wanna take this yale MBA course where every lecture is paired with a money stuff column

Here is my first draft of one (or more) Matt Levine newsletter articles that I will ask my MBA students to read before each class. I'll list the associated topic + class goal along with it.

If you don't know who @matt_levine is: https://t.co/JHBf4cygzc https://t.co/7UtyJQL086

— Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham (@paulgp) October 13, 2022

It's happening! https://t.co/7UtyJR39me pic.twitter.com/yGvrPr3nhC

— Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham (@paulgp) October 13, 2022

https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/04/sec-charges-founder-of-financial-aid-startup-frank-with-defrauding-jpmorgan/

a continuing own goal, really incredible

irl lol at 'The very most important thing to understand in finance and economics is that when a person says “either the bank is lying or I am lying,” you must not give him your money!'

Lol I sent that section to my kids

reasonable point

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-07-11/matt-levine-s-money-stuff-elon-musk-blames-the-lawyers

good stuff!

good (money) stuff

that piece about the M&A lawyers was hilarious. he should get a Pulitzer or something for his non-fiction humor / explainer columns

Yeah, okay, raising the cost of capital for public oil companies, causing them to exit some wells, does open up possibilities for private companies, sure. But you've still raised the overall cost of capital for oil companies. That's good! Fewer investments will occur!

It was incredibly easy to beat Musk in court, says Musk, in court.

This is beautiful.

this guys quibbling over $90m now, sad

i emailed matt a link to a story and it was in today's linkdump! very happy

youre famous now

whats the article

lol was it the story about Ray Dalio’s apartment

is the link dump a newsletter only feature i just read on the web because i dont like emails

yeah it's the article about the illegal ray dalio pergola

the linkdump is just the 'things happen' section at the end

ah

The illegal penthouse added 200,000 pounds of weight to the rooftop — the equivalent of 36 SUV’s.

this is helpful for me a common man of no exceptional schooling to have weight expressed in a unit i am familiar with, the famous suv

https://thevillagesun.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/468-W.-Bway-6.jpg

lmao this honestly doesnt look that bad to me, 200k lbs sounds worse

the condo building across from me has upstairs parking. as in, it's on the roof of the building, totally exposed, although this part of the roof was only a few stories above ground (the parking part surrounded the rest of the condo floors which extended up a few more stories). one day someone drove a car off the roof parking lot, i dunno how, maybe hit the gas pedal when they should have braked. the car fell a couple of stories to the basement parking lot next door! the driver walked away with only a few scratches. they were able to drive the car away and onto a tow truck even though it was all smashed!

anyway now imagine that was 36 SUVs and it was 10 stories up in the west village

no wait, soho

cant really relate to that since i have a car elevator like mitt romney

got an email about a potential future Money Stuff podcast the other day

excited about the podcast! he's got a very relaxing voice

voice for radio def, rare in the pod era of nasally guys laughing

one of my big youtube discoveries of the pandemic was a watch repair guy and at least 80% of the reason i watch his videos is he has a nice voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xasm3GFL7mM

ha used to watch that guy

feel like half of lockpickinglawyer's success is due to his voice

Tension on one, anyway folks that’s all I have for you

haha i heard that in his voice :/

Huh, I wasn't crazy about the Money Stuff trailer, he laughs at his own jokes a little too much (but then I suppose that's podcasts, and why I don't listen to 'em)

thought the pod was pretty good. it’s nice to hear matt’s voice. i’m not crazy about the co-host so far

she gives me "grew up in stamford" vibes