Comment by klenwell

I work in fintech and I've been reading Matt Levine for a few months now after seeing his name pop up here on HN several times.

I agree with everything you say.

> He's engaging, funny, talks about interesting topics and, most importantly, he's _rarely_ wrong. It's a rare thing seeing a journalist talk about your specialty subject and actually being correct.

More importantly, on this point, when he is wrong, he freely acknowledges it, embraces it, and then corrects himself in a way that demonstrates he's more interested in truly understanding the topic and updating his cognitive model than in "being right".

Thursday's column is a case in point, where he owns up to two mistakes:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-12/the-bu...

He's also the source of one of my favorite quotes on the last tech bubble. From his 8/7/2019 column, on MoviePass, borrowing from Dickens:

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure three hundred million pounds, result unicorn.