Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other

Re:Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other by swyx on Friday October 09, 2020 @06:28AM (#24728524)

from this profile, Matt is very probably underpaid vs his earning potential (probably at least an order of magnitude) and should leave to substack or his own operation. but I respect that money really isn't everything.

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Re:Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other by carapace on Friday October 09, 2020 @12:45PM (#24731741)

He's IMO a perfect example of the intractability of the "fake news" problem. It's not that there aren't high quality news sources out there, like Matt Levine, it's that the market (in the form of folks willing to pay for it) isn't there.

(Maybe it's technology? Micropayments still aren't effectively a thing?)

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Re:Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other by jdminhbg on Friday October 09, 2020 @05:24PM (#24734594)

The market for Levine is certainly there. He could easily clear 7 figures on Substack.

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Re:Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other by quickthrower2 on Saturday October 10, 2020 @07:16AM (#24738154)

Why substack? Wouldn’t Wordpress / namecheap do the trick? Why would he need a discovery platform?

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Re:Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other by jdminhbg on Saturday October 10, 2020 @11:36AM (#24739643)

Substack would serve as a billing/subscription management platform for him, not discovery.

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Re:Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other by o_class_star on Friday October 09, 2020 @11:57AM (#24731167)

How lucrative is substack?

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Re:Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other by swyx on Friday October 09, 2020 @01:53PM (#24732513)

their top 10 all make at least 7 figures a year and Matt would almost certainly be a top 10 writer

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Re:Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other by ksec on Sunday October 11, 2020 @01:41PM (#24747562)

Is there a source for this?

At least a million a year is quite a lot.

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Re:Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other by antasvara on Friday October 09, 2020 @07:53AM (#24728964)

Pretty sure he has a Substack called Big that's about monopolies, but I don't think it's paid.

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Re:Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other by pg_bot on Friday October 09, 2020 @08:11AM (#24729084)

That's Matt Stoller, and I wouldn't want to confuse the two. Levine has a much stronger grip on reality.

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Re:Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other by mcjoken on Friday October 09, 2020 @08:07AM (#24729049)

You're thinking of Matt Stoller

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Re:Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other by freddie_mercury on Friday October 09, 2020 @08:05AM (#24729036)

Big is by Matt Stoller, not Matt Levine.

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