Matt Levine, Columnist

ESG Isn’t Hiring

Also investment banking chatbots, a grim pizza party, a bad investor meeting, retail-ish private equity and a souvenir flattened penny arbitrage.

April 30, 2025 at 6:11 PM UTC

By Matt Levine

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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I used to write sometimes around here about what I called the “ESG Consultant But Evil.” For instance I wrote in 2022:

Or I once described one reason you might get into the carbon credits game: