Matt Levine, Columnist

Heavy Ion Fusion and Insider Trading

Also money markets, 13Fs, Government in the Sunshine, triathlons, unicorns and bond traders.

August 16, 2016 at 1:09 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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People often talk about "pump and dump" schemes, but I feel like there's an appeal to the pump even without the dump. Like, here's a thing I could do: