Matt Levine, Columnist

Should Trump Have Indexed?

Most people should probably just invest in low-cost index funds. But some people shouldn't.

September 3, 2015 at 5:59 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.

Provide news feedback or report an error

Site feedback:

Take our Survey

Max Abelson's Bloomberg Businessweek story about Donald Trump's business career is as delightful as you'd expect, suffused as it is with the essence of Trump. Which apparently you can buy in a bottle:

Trump is "such a proud erector of towers that he once promised to put up 'the stiffest building in the city.'" The chief learning officer of Trump University once said that "The problem with school is that school is a little academic." And of course: