Introduction
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.
Education
Levine graduated from Harvard University 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. Levine's analysis in his column have been widely covered by other newspapers.
Levine has also written for The Wall Street Journal, CNN, The Billfold, and the Planet Money blog.