What Makes an Activity Nirty?

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Fi: What makes an activity nirty? Has finance become pretty nirdy? Fi: There are plenty of bars sa lower manhattan that are not very n dirty. But lake, there's also lake, i think of takas having computer programming when i was like kid, was quite nirtier because it was academic but also per wiare you doing that? Go play sports, right? Whereas now i think computer, you know, you see enough like mark zuckerberg stories, and it's like, computer praremming is like the way to become a billionaire who controls the world"

Is Matt Levine a modern-day Horace? Like Matt, Horace has a preoccupation with wealth and the law. There’s a playful humor as he segues from topic to topic. An ability to read Latin. And many of Horace’s letters are about the length of a Bloomberg View column. QED, says Tyler.

So Matt, the Latin teacher turned lawyer turned investment banker turned finance writer, recently joined Tyler for a conversation on Horace and more, including cryptocurrencies, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nabakov, New York, Uber, financial regulation, market volatility, M&A, whether finance is nerdy, and why panic is central to the Matt Levine production function.

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