Matt Levine, Columnist

Dystopian Future Securities Fraud

Also Citi’s $900 million goof and index insider trading.

January 5, 2021 at 11:59 AM EST

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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Hi! It’s been a while. This column has been on hiatus since August as I have been on parental leave. I am back now. A lot of news has happened since August. Also, I am aware that there are a lot of new readers here, for reasons. Welcome!

I thought that, for this first week, we might ease back into Money Stuff by talking about some of the stories I missed while I was on leave. Not everything, of course, and not even all the important financial stories, but some of the more … Money Stuff-ier ones? It’s going to be a weird week anyway; we might as well remember the highlights of late 2020, such as they were. And then next week we’ll get back to more normal programming.

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