Oranbeone, You're Not Rated Speaking Ancient Greek

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map speaks latin and he was a classics major as an undergraduate at harvard. Oranbeone: It is much easier to read, even like, a nineteenth century legal decision than to read, you know, thucydides. i actually think of your bloomburg writings as being a kind of modernized horace. So you read horace as a preoccupation with wealth, with law. There's a humour in it, the way he segways from one topic to another. The're even mixed feelings on how the pursuit of wealth would translate into happiness.

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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