I find Matt Levine and his column Money Stuff at Bloomberg precisely so valuable because this complicated dry stuff is explained simply and with a lot of humor. I don't know enough to know if it is over simplified or wrong but it seems correct and is very accessible. It probably won't help you invest in derivatives or understand options better than index funds, but that column is an interesting rare exception to the rule of finance being esoteric and inaccessible.
can you give an example of nuance he left out? (I'm not reading every mail that comes in, and sometimes find his writing too verbose, but not really due to details, just to repeat/reiterate things, and mostly in the same - not too illustrative - way)
