Matt Levine, Columnist

Meat, Marijuana and Call Options

Also too-big-to-fail, Uber governance, ICO enforcement, basketball and negative convexity.

October 2, 2017 at 1:41 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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When I tell people that I am a financial columnist they sometimes ask me, like, will the stock market go up or whatever, and I have to shamefacedly tell them that I'm not that kind of financial columnist. I don't make predictions about stuff. "If I knew that, I wouldn't be doing this, har har har," I sometimes say, a trick I learned as an investment banker.