What Financial Stories Do You Think Are Not Getting Much Coverage?

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What financial stories or issues do you think ore not getting enough coverage? And why? It's hard for me to answer questions like that, because i am such a creature of coverage. I wake up and i read the news, i write about it. So i rarely take a step back. The banks and hedge funds are not, like perfect substitutes. Like banks do something interesting, and there's a lot about it. But id be interested in seeing more, ecase i don't feel like i have a good answer.

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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