Matt Levine, Columnist

Bridgewater's Bosses Are Fighting Over Something

If the hedge fund were managed by computer, it would look like this.

February 5, 2016 at 5:39 PM EST

Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit; and an editor of Dealbreaker.

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The funniest thing I read today is this Wall Street Journal story about Bridgewater, the biggest hedge fund in the world. Much of life at Bridgewater is recorded on video, and it seems like a combination of "The Office" and slow TV:

The animating conflict of the story is that there's "an unprecedented showdown" at Bridgewater, a power struggle between founder/guru Ray Dalio and co-Chief Executive Officer Greg Jensen. They are locked in a mortal battle over ... umm ... something?

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