Levine has very very quickly become one of my favorite writers, because of 1) his ability to say "Here is an animated picture of a stoned Wall Street bull pouri

Levine has very very quickly become one of my favorite writers, because of 1) his ability to say "Here is an animated picture of a stoned Wall Street bull pouring Doritos into his mouth next to a pink bong because why not"[1] in the middle of an article, and 2) his pointing out of incredibly obvious things that most commenters seem to miss. (Why was Barclays lying about the existence of the HFTs in the dark pool to the institutions who make it orders of magnitude more money than the HFTs? Because they need the HFTs to service the institutional investors.) [1] http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-06-20/levine-on-wall-street-teen-idols-and-tender-offers http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-06-20/levine-on-w...