Matt Levine, Columnist

Blogging, Bonds and Bathrooms

Also Steve Schwarzman, Ray Dalio, blockchains, GAAP and liquidity.

June 6, 2017 at 1:26 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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Spoofing, etc.

If I were an ambitious securities regulator or prosecutor, I would spend a few minutes each morning reading blog posts with titles like "Why I Quit my Investment Banking Job to Start a Tech Company." There seem to be new ones every day, and you never know what you might find in them. For instance, if the author discusses his time as a trader at an investment bank and says that he was "uncomfortable with some of the things I witnessed/experienced," an alert regulator might call him up and ask: Well, what, specifically? Was it mortgage fraud? Insider trading? Spoofing?