Matt Levine (columnist)

Matt Levine is a columnist for "Bloomberg News" covering finance and business. Levine has previously been a lawyer, investment banker, law clerk, and has written for a number of newspapers and financial sites. His newsletter, "Money Stuff," is one of the most popular on Wall Street with over 150k subscribers.
Education.
Levine graduated Harvard University, where he majored in classics, and Yale Law School.
Career.
After graduating Levine was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer for the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. He later went on to become an investment banker for Goldman Sachs, where he structured and marketed corporate equity derivatives for four years. Levine was also a high school Latin teacher and a law clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.
In 2011, Levine starting writing about economics and finance for the financial news site Dealbreaker. There, he wrote about the "deals, scandals, complexities and personalities of the financial services industry." Levine's coverage and analysis of the 2012 JPMorgan Chase trading loss was featured in the Columbia Journalism Review's anthology "The Best Business Writing 2013."
In 2013, Levine joined Bloomberg View (now Bloomberg Opinion) as an opinion columnist covering finance and business. He writes the newsletter "Money Stuff" for Bloomberg, which is published every week day. Levine's analysis in his column have been widely covered by other newspapers. The newsletter has close to 150k subscribers making it one of the most popular newsletters on Wall Street.
Levine has also written for "The Wall Street Journal", CNN, "The Billfold", and the "Planet Money" blog.
When asked about the possibility of switching to a paid version similar to Ben Thompson's Stratechery Levine said that he enjoys the heightened fame of writing a free newsletter as it reaches more people than a paid newsletter.
Levine took several months off in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic for parental leave after the birth of his second child.
Writing style.
Levine is known for his humorous, witty, deadpan writing style.
Praise.
Levine has received praise from the likes of Bill Ackman and Jim Chanos, with Ackman saying "His work is some of the most sophisticated analysis of what is really happening on Wall Street".