Matt Levine’s Money Stuff: You Can Just Not Buy SpaceX
Matt Levine discusses just not buying SpaceX, the Alpha capture gig economy, AI lawyers, the Meta trade school for building data centers, and soccer results risk management.
Matt Levine discusses just not buying SpaceX, the Alpha capture gig economy, AI lawyers, the Meta trade school for building data centers, and soccer results risk management.
BitGo Holdings Inc. soft-pedaled the scope of risks tied to faltering digital asset prices on the cryptocurrency wallet firm’s financials during its initial public offering, a proposed class action said.
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer is setting its sights on Texas as part of the transatlantic law firm’s plan to double its US revenue to $1 billion in the next five years.
New York is looking to bring its existing guidelines for operating payment stablecoins in line with new federal requirements.
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Monica Freas joined Skadden as a partner in its Financial Institutions Regulatory Group in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Tuesday.
Sebastian Fain has built a reputation for being quick to take on challenges in M&A across a broad swath of industries, including healthcare, tech, energy and consumer products. Now he’s taking on perhaps the biggest lift of his career—helping Gibson Dunn grow an M&A group that has long lived in the shadows at a firm best known for its litigation prowess.
High-profile cryptocurrency industry executives from A16Z Crypto, Block, Coinbase, and others are banding together to call on Senate leaders to keep a provision in a regulatory bill, known as the Clarity Act, that’s a top congressional priority for the sector.


Cryptocurrency and NFTs continue to rise in popularity in the U.S., but many people are still confused about how they are taxed. In this video, a partner at Steptoe & Johnson who specializes in tax policy and cryptocurrency, lays out how different crypto transactions are taxed.
In a bid to maximize participation in a three-month tax amnesty for out-of-state sellers, Illinois published guidance Tuesday meant to help businesses navigate its first-in-the-nation program.
Zipper maker YKK (U.S.A.) Inc. doesn’t seem to have convinced a Georgia Court of Appeals panel at oral arguments Tuesday that it was wrongly penalized for leaving the signature off an application for a tax exemption.
The artwork of Carmen Herrera, an abstract artist who died in 2022 at the age of 106, was incorrectly overvalued by the IRS and, as a result, her estate was assessed a nearly $3.6 million tax bill, according to a petition in US Tax Court.
A new watchdog report on the IRS’s handing of a data-sharing agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement undercuts the tax agency’s arguments in court, a new filing by a group suing over the issue said.
US tech companies say Canada hasn’t gone far enough to quell a trade spat over a domestic content requirement on streaming companies, featuring a 15% funding obligation, while Canadian media groups are vowing to fight to keep the requirement intact.
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