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.
I received some angry correspondence over that line,1 and I am now prepared to retract it. Apparently golfers don't walk around exchanging stock tips in the open air. They exchange stock tips over e-mail:
