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Matt Levine’s Money stuff
Matt Levine’s Money Stuff: Social Loans and Creeping Fraud
©2016 Bloomberg View O3RYS06KLVRB (Bloomberg View) — Future finance I am old enough to remember when companies like Social Finance Inc. were referred to as “peer-to-peer lenders.” The idea was, there was an online platform that made loans to people and then sold those loans to other people. It was
Matt Levine’s Money Stuff: Yahoo, Drugs and Argentine Bonds
©2016 Bloomberg View O1Z5LV6KLVRT (Bloomberg View) — Yahoo!?? The last time Ilooked at Yahoo, in December, I calculated that the after-tax equity value of its actual businesses, outside of Alibaba and Yahoo Japan, was about $1.7 billion. It turns out that Yahoo was also looking at the value of its