Matt Levine
9 statements across 3 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Apr 29, 2019 by Matt Levine · said 6 times in 3 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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2021 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
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Apr 29, 2019 positive
Levine: Manufactured CDS defaults benefit corporations via cheaper debt refinancing
“I'm not that bothered by this for a couple of reasons. One, it's like Many of these stories result in companies getting cheap financing and it's like, well, you have this derivatives market. Company didn't ask for it. It was just like grew up independently of …”
Apr 29, 2019
Levine writes Bloomberg's Money Stuff daily from 5 a.m. to 11 a.m.
“Well, my day starts at, like, five a.m. I wake up. I have, like, some stuff collected for that day's money stuff. Sometimes I've written a section. Mostly I've collected links. Sometimes I've written two sections. But, you know, it's mostly, like, pretty ill-f…”
Apr 29, 2019
Levine: Dealbreaker faced low hiring risk due to low pay and mean commenters
“Their barriers to hiring me were pretty low because like they don't pay that much. And if I was really bad at it, the commenters would be really mean to me. And I would quit in a month, which has sort of had happened before. So they're like, their risk was pre…”
Apr 29, 2019
Levine: Corporate defaults depend on creditor relationships, not pure cash flows
“It's a mistake to think that there is this pure bet on the credit quality of a company. The company is going to default or not default, not just based on its cash flows, but based on like whether it can get refinancing or whether its lenders will extend its lo…”
Apr 29, 2019 positive
Levine: Buybacks emerged as a corrective to managerial empire-building
“There was a view that corporate managers liked to spend money inefficiently and to aggrandize themselves and build empires, and so, like, there's this wave of conglomeration where, like, managers were like, oh, look, we have money. We should buy some more stuf…”
Apr 29, 2019
Levine: Old-school blogging applies non-journalism expertise to daily news
“That's the basic thing is sort of old school blogging is it's like someone who has an expertise in something other than journalism, like writing about the news of the day. So it's not like necessarily like reporting or research intensive, but it is applying kn…”
Apr 29, 2019 neutral
Levine: Anti-buyback arguments rely on a strange bias against returning capital
“There is a strand of the buyback debate that says companies should never return money to shareholders. It says once money comes into a company, it should stay in that company forever, which is obviously not what anyone says, but it's like sort of the implied P…”
May 13, 2019 positive
Mauboussin: Bloomberg Columnist Matt Levine Is an Absolute Genius
“The author who, there are probably two authors who I never miss, and one is Matt Levine at Bloomberg, and that guy is an absolute genius. And, you know, look, he takes topics that are certainly, they're obviously sort of Topical things, but breaks them down in…”