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by Matt Levine
Who uses, recommends or left Money Stuff, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
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here's my understanding, which comes almost entirely from reading Money Stuff, a daily column by Matt Levine. If you are a tech person who wants to learn about finance, I recommend it!
Opening a Hacker News explainer on private credit, which he says he learned from the column.
2026-03-12·news.ycombinator.com ↗
For much more on that side of things, you should read Money Stuff or listen to Odd Lots, which cover “private credit is the new bank lending” all the time.
An essay on how modern loan origination works, pointing readers elsewhere for coverage of private credit.
2025-10-10·bitsaboutmoney.com ↗
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
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The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.
What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:
Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.