The real question is, why not more crypto ciddes? I've never heard of a crypto doggy. Can we not imagine a future or almost every business issues crypto currency in some form? Maybe the velocity or a volume will be low, but there'll be a crypto currency for every business. And like now we have gift certificates, and this is perfectly fine. We shouldn't think it's weird.
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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