Markets Are Weird: A Conversation with Matt Levine

Matt Levine is a columnist at Bloomberg Opinion and the author of the popular newsletter Money Stuff, where he has become one of the most distinctive voices in modern finance. In our conversation, he reflected on his unusual career path from law and investment banking to writing about the industry, and how that shift has shaped his perspective on markets. He discussed why finance is often less about math than about people making strange choices, what his “Everything is Securities Fraud” series reveals about regulation, and how innovations like SPACs and meme stocks blur the line between creativity and absurdity