Matt Levine, Columnist

Interrogation Methods and Blockchains

Also tax structuring, Valeant compensation, Buffettpalooza, and attractive bankers.

May 2, 2016 at 1:13 PM UTC

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.

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Fund management.

Insider trading law is so weird because, while on the one hand prosecutors try to send people to prison for years for talking to corporate investor-relations employees about upcoming earnings, on the other hand not only are investment managers allowed to meet with companies and ask them questions, they're even trained in Central Intelligence Agency interrogation techniques to try to get useful information out of the companies: