published May 19th 2017, 8:32 am, by Matt Levine (Bloomberg View) —MiFID II. One thing that I like to say around here is that a lot of the financial industry is run as essentially a gift economy. Investment bankers don’t just do stuff for clients and send them the bill:

published May 12th 2016, 3:58 pm, by Margaret Carlson (Bloomberg View) — In the days leading up to Donald Trump’s much-ballyhooed courtesy call to Capitol Hill on Thursday, House Speaker Paul Ryan seemed like a groom wanting his presumptive bride to change before he does. “This is the party of