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Congratulations, today is your day to discover Matt Levine! Here are a few good ones from the archives: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-07-14/bank

Congratulations, today is your day to discover Matt Levine! Here are a few good ones from the archives: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-07-14/banks-forgot-who-was-supposed-to-own-dell-shares https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-07-14/banks-for... https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-01-28/yahoo-would-rather-not-pay-taxes-on-its-alibaba-shares https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-01-28/yahoo-wou... https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-07-07/can-you-really-game-index-funds- https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-07-07/can-you-r...

snikeris 10y ago
I liked this bit: > A regular human retail trader could have read the S&P news release on Monday afternoon, had dinner with friends, seen a movie, gotten a good night's sleep, spent Tuesday morning doing research to confirm that American was in fact going to join the S&P 500 and that a lot of index fund money tracks the S&P 500, gone out for a two-martini lunch, had 40 martinis, gotten blackout drunk, woken up in the hospital, spent 48 hours recovering and still had time to buy the stock before it joined the S&P on Friday afternoon.
AceJohnny2 10y ago
Don't forget "Oreos, Vomitoxin and the Price of Wheat" (with the best alt-URL) https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-04-02/my-dog-is-gluten-free https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-04-02/my-dog-is... "Arbitrage Discovered" about the best/worse life insurance contract ever (whether you're the beneficiary or the insurer), and includes possibly the best financial punchline in an opening paragraph ever: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-02-27/arbitrage-discovered https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-02-27/arbitrage... There were others, but I can't remember them offhand. The Vomitoxin article is the one that put him (well, Bloomberg View really) in my feed :)

snikeris 10y ago

I liked this bit: > A regular human retail trader could have read the S&P news release on Monday afternoon, had dinner with friends, seen a movie, gotten a good night's sleep, spent Tuesday morning doing research to confirm that American was in fact going to join the S&P 500 and that a lot of index fund money tracks the S&P 500, gone out for a two-martini lunch, had 40 martinis, gotten blackout drunk, woken up in the hospital, spent 48 hours recovering and still had time to buy the stock before it joined the S&P on Friday afternoon.

AceJohnny2 10y ago

Don't forget "Oreos, Vomitoxin and the Price of Wheat" (with the best alt-URL) https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-04-02/my-dog-is-gluten-free https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-04-02/my-dog-is... "Arbitrage Discovered" about the best/worse life insurance contract ever (whether you're the beneficiary or the insurer), and includes possibly the best financial punchline in an opening paragraph ever: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-02-27/arbitrage-discovered https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-02-27/arbitrage... There were others, but I can't remember them offhand. The Vomitoxin article is the one that put him (well, Bloomberg View really) in my feed :)