Matt Levine, Columnist

Tamed Banks and Unequal Markets

Also direct lending, computerized hedge funds, ATM fees, Instagram Stories, a bitcoin hack, etc.

August 3, 2016 at 1:11 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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Has Wall Street Been Tamed?

Betteridge's law states that "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no," but this New York Times Magazine article by Nathaniel Popper is the second use of the headline "Has Wall Street Been Tamed?" in the past two weeks (the first was this Bloomberg article), which makes me think that the answer is ... maybe? Popper's answer is closer to yes, and he attributes the taming primarily to increased capital requirements: