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I'm surprised that there's only around 150k people (other than me) who read the newsletter. I don't work in finance, always enjoy reading Matt, and often learn.

I'm surprised that there's only around 150k people (other than me) who read the newsletter. I don't work in finance, always enjoy reading Matt, and often learn. To that end, if you don't subscribe to him and want a sample to consider joining the free newsletter, let me suggest his column "Arbitrage Discovered" from 2015: https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/articles/2015-02-27/arbitrage-discovered https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/articles/2015-02-27/ar...

tuna-piano 6y ago
If you clicked to the comments and are debating reading more... here's a passage from the above link: "So that leaves the option of Aviva settling with him. How much should he take in a settlement? Well, how much is his claim worth? Conservatively, I would ballpark it at an infinite amount of money."
- JDEW 6y ago
  And if you need _even more_ motivation after reading the above: > Insurers were offering a product that paid you, when you died, the greater of (1) the amount you put in and (2) the return on some risky investment. So he'd buy two of those -- one long the risky investment, one short the risky investment -- and be guaranteed a big profit. The catch is you have to die, but he solved this by enlisting dying patients in AIDS hospices to put their names on the contracts. This column truly is a classic.
polote 6y ago
only 150k? that's seems like huge for something which is almost a niche. How many people subscribe to newsletters? on these people how many are interested about the opinion of one guy on the details of market finance?
- Nimitz14 6y ago
  Dude matt levine is a legend. I think that despite having no connection with the finance industry.
- dcolkitt 6y ago
  I thought something similar. Just to contextualize that number the LA Times only has 170 thousand digital subscribers.
  - OJFord 6y ago
    And almost all of them in LA, even with a bias from it being digital so that's how you get it if you want it outside of LA. Compared to Levine, who has me, in the UK, as a subscriber. He has a way bigger potential audience than the LA Times.
- petercooper 6y ago
  If you mean email newsletters generally, my own biggest is 172k but I know folks like The Skimm or the Morning Brew run into low millions of subs. A lot of it is down to how valuable and targeted the audience is and this guy is clearly winning on that front.
iav 6y ago
This doesn’t count the people who read the newsletter online or on the Bloomberg terminal (where I typically read it). I didn’t even know there was a newsletter till recently.
- phasetransition 6y ago
  Oh right, I forget that the people in finance day to day are accessing via the terminal.
  - bko 6y ago
    You can also access the Bloomberg website and disable javascript and the article will load. Most adblockers have a disable javascript for this page feature
    - boogies 6y ago
      (Also, I believe all normal browsers allow disabling javascript in the devtool settings — my adblocker doesn’t because it’s just /etc/hosts.)
    - tc313 6y ago
      An easy way to do this on iOS Safari is to “Show Reader View” after clicking on any Bloomberg article.
      - sails 6y ago
        Hope they don't see this.
        r00fus 6y ago
        You can even set Safari to automatically go into reader mode for all websites (I do this, then whitelist the sites/webapps). 9 times out of 10 this is much more readable and is darkmode by default.
sabana 6y ago
How does one sign up for his free newsletter?
- nojito 6y ago
  https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters
  - sabana 6y ago
    Thank you!
- perseusprime11 6y ago
  http://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/join/4wm/moneystuff-signup http://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/join/4wm/moneystuff-s...
  - sabana 6y ago
    Thank you!
- humanlion87 6y ago
  Just as an FYI, he is on parental leave right now. So the newsletter is in pause mode for a few months.
- deleted 6y ago
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tuna-piano 6y ago

If you clicked to the comments and are debating reading more... here's a passage from the above link: "So that leaves the option of Aviva settling with him. How much should he take in a settlement? Well, how much is his claim worth? Conservatively, I would ballpark it at an infinite amount of money."

JDEW 6y ago
And if you need _even more_ motivation after reading the above: > Insurers were offering a product that paid you, when you died, the greater of (1) the amount you put in and (2) the return on some risky investment. So he'd buy two of those -- one long the risky investment, one short the risky investment -- and be guaranteed a big profit. The catch is you have to die, but he solved this by enlisting dying patients in AIDS hospices to put their names on the contracts. This column truly is a classic.

polote 6y ago

only 150k? that's seems like huge for something which is almost a niche. How many people subscribe to newsletters? on these people how many are interested about the opinion of one guy on the details of market finance?

Nimitz14 6y ago
Dude matt levine is a legend. I think that despite having no connection with the finance industry.
dcolkitt 6y ago
I thought something similar. Just to contextualize that number the LA Times only has 170 thousand digital subscribers.
- OJFord 6y ago
  And almost all of them in LA, even with a bias from it being digital so that's how you get it if you want it outside of LA. Compared to Levine, who has me, in the UK, as a subscriber. He has a way bigger potential audience than the LA Times.
petercooper 6y ago
If you mean email newsletters generally, my own biggest is 172k but I know folks like The Skimm or the Morning Brew run into low millions of subs. A lot of it is down to how valuable and targeted the audience is and this guy is clearly winning on that front.

iav 6y ago

This doesn’t count the people who read the newsletter online or on the Bloomberg terminal (where I typically read it). I didn’t even know there was a newsletter till recently.

phasetransition 6y ago
Oh right, I forget that the people in finance day to day are accessing via the terminal.
- bko 6y ago
  You can also access the Bloomberg website and disable javascript and the article will load. Most adblockers have a disable javascript for this page feature
  - boogies 6y ago
    (Also, I believe all normal browsers allow disabling javascript in the devtool settings — my adblocker doesn’t because it’s just /etc/hosts.)
  - tc313 6y ago
    An easy way to do this on iOS Safari is to “Show Reader View” after clicking on any Bloomberg article.
    - sails 6y ago
      Hope they don't see this.
      - r00fus 6y ago
        You can even set Safari to automatically go into reader mode for all websites (I do this, then whitelist the sites/webapps). 9 times out of 10 this is much more readable and is darkmode by default.

sabana 6y ago

How does one sign up for his free newsletter?

nojito 6y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters
- sabana 6y ago
  Thank you!
perseusprime11 6y ago
http://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/join/4wm/moneystuff-signup http://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/join/4wm/moneystuff-s...
- sabana 6y ago
  Thank you!
humanlion87 6y ago
Just as an FYI, he is on parental leave right now. So the newsletter is in pause mode for a few months.
deleted 6y ago
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