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This isn’t a newsletter, this is Matt Levine Incorporated. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Bill Ackman Can Tweet His New Fundwww.bloomberg.com Also insurers buy mortgages, Deutsche Bank prefers larger fees and an LLM learns Excel.

People read this newsletter to express a viewpoint, be a part of a community, speculate on the attention value of cat pictures or for other entertainment reasons. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

OpenAI Might Have Lucrative NDAswww.bloomberg.com Also sports gambling limits, Stripe, stablecoins and memecoins.

I have directed Money Stuff employees to drill into the design and details of a Martian city. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Banks Can Outsource Their Tradeswww.bloomberg.com Citadel Securities, Bill Hwang, Bill Ackman’s greenshoe, the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy and life on Mars.

This newsletter brings its best every f--ing day. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Jefferies Funded Some Fake Waterwww.bloomberg.com Also Aspiration carbon credits, OpenAI board seats and popping balance balls.

This newsletter has gone from crackpot to merely eccentric. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Celsius Wants Some Money Backwww.bloomberg.com Also Bobby Jain, Bill Ackman, Vlad Artamonov and frozen heads.

I want this newsletter to be less touched, less keyboards stroked. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Paramount Did Its Dealwww.bloomberg.com Also empty voting, private credit, accredited investors and algorithmic FX.

By taking swift and decisive action, Money Stuff is positioning itself as a responsible and trustworthy player in the ever-expanding world of financial newsletters. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

It’s Hard to Make Rules Nowwww.bloomberg.com Also Paramount is back, judicial conflicts of interest, more Canna Global, more authorized share drama and more mouse jiggling.

This newsletter is maybe the most significant and pure manifestation of the moment we’re in. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

People Dislike Activist Short Sellingwww.bloomberg.com Hindenburg, Bridgewater, $25 million law firm partners, bonds pay interest and manure securitization.

People should do their homework and understand what the newsletter is and decide if it's worth it. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Canna SPAC Has Phantom Stockwww.bloomberg.com SPACs, 24-hour trading, Roaring Kitty is a 13G filer, you can’t be fired for doing crime at work and Chevron is overruled.

This newsletter was a shining example of the Money Stuff system at work. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Purdue’s Bankruptcy Went Too Farwww.bloomberg.com Opioids, SEC ALJs, buffer ETFs, cattle ABS and more Head of Macro.

Despite having had months to complete the Money Stuff Assignment, the newsletter appears to reflect only a few hours of effort. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?www.bloomberg.com To continue, please click the box below to let us know you're not a robot.

The process was halting at first, but a newsletter started to take shape. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

MMTLP Tried Squeezing the Shortswww.bloomberg.com Also Hunterbrook, Hess/Goldman and corporate country music.

Let's be honest: Much of what a typical newsletter writer does—reading, summarizing, and ranking—is what large language models already do extremely well. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Boomer Candy Business Is Boomingwww.bloomberg.com Buffer funds, CEO school, FTX claims, AMC debt and AI VCs.

Money Stuff is special in that its first product will be the safe supernewsletter, and it will not do anything else up until then. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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I told fans on live streams and social media platform X that I wrote and had shared this newsletter. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Trafigura Bought Oil Wrongwww.bloomberg.com Market manipulation, bad NDAs, Nvidia securities fraud lawsuit, Point72 AI fund, middle market investment banking and the Wu-Tang Clan.

Some readers thought the newsletter was crazy, but Money Stuff needed a win and figured this would garner buzz and help attract younger customers. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

QXO Doesn’t Have Enough Stockwww.bloomberg.com A mini meme stock, a credit card for rent, various Elon Musk news and werewolves.

I complete 90% of my tasks by 10 a.m. because I manage a long-term newsletter that changes infrequently. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Elon Says He Got His Moneywww.bloomberg.com The Tesla vote, Wells Fargo mouse jigglers, QIS, SRT repo, chess and golf.

There is no party like a Money Stuff party. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Banks Transfer Risk to Themselveswww.bloomberg.com SRT repo, no Paramount deal, QIS convenience, Pioneer capital discipline, fake family offices and chess.

Because of Money Stuff, I was able to get back to what really matters. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Tax Deals Can Cause Conflictswww.bloomberg.com TRAs, GameStop’s cash pile and Joonko’s fake customers.

I was so exceedingly devastated by the fact that I wasn't actually a multi-millionaire because of Money Stuff's website messing up that I simply closed the customer service chat box. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Private Equity Is On Salewww.bloomberg.com Secondary market valuations, Roaring Kitty’s livestream, DJT ticker confusion, quant pivot to AI, elite recruiting, BNB and parking lots.

Money Stuff's brand-name profile and broad retail following, along with a substantial media following, will drive substantial reader interest. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Bill Ackman Wants a Lot of Your Moneywww.bloomberg.com Pershing Square IPO, Texas in New Jersey, Russian assets, reverse ATMs and a pickleball affinity fraud.

Money Stuff has become one of, if not the most, dominant financial newsletters in the country, if not the world. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Dallas Needs a Stock Exchangewww.bloomberg.com TXSE, NeuBase, Echo Times, Debt Box and the private funds rule.

I should focus on setting this newsletter's strategy, building its stature and connectivity, and leading its people. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Musk Chose Who Got Chipswww.bloomberg.com Musk empire governance, OpenAI governance, Roaring Kitty’s E*Trade account, NYSE glitches, synthetic PIK fees, Peter Orszag’s office and a violin token.

Once you delete this newsletter you ain’t getting it back, that’s how it works. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

GameStop Comes Roaring Backwww.bloomberg.com Also Trillium’s fake Getty Images takeover, Skydance’s Paramount deal, private credit synthetic PIK and Vista/Pluralsight.

This is more of an assistant that’s available to you than it is a newsletter. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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When the Money Stuff newsletter hits the phone you immediately read, praying he’ll use the English language but all that you see is a handful of gibberish typed by a toddler in mittens. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Everyone Wants Elon Musk’s Attentionwww.bloomberg.com xAI, Tesla pay vote, meme-stock technicals, Ozempic vs. sugar, American Lidar and CEO roast raps.

The manual nature of this newsletter means it is impossible to keep up with surging trading activity. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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The lifeblood of Money Stuff's business is its credibility. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?www.bloomberg.com To continue, please click the box below to let us know you're not a robot.

I did not appreciate my inputting error and overrode all of the soft warnings in this newsletter. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Citi Missed a Fat Fingerwww.bloomberg.com Also Revolut hostage selfies, backdated Damien Hirst NFTs and endless shrimp denials.

This newsletter isn’t even served over pasta. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The Companies Work for Themselveswww.bloomberg.com Common ownership, endless shrimp, Scarlett Johansson and private stock valuation.