Matt Levine, Columnist

Injured Bankers and Merger Votes

Also endowments, oil accounting, cornerstones and Halloween costumes.

September 21, 2016 at 1:08 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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Wells Fargo.

Yesterday Wells Fargo & Co. Chief Executive Officer John Stumpf testified before the Senate Banking Committee, and I guess he got beaten up before the hearing? Or broke his hand punching a wall? In any case, his swearing-in produced what may be the defining image of the financial industry in the 21st century: