Is Wall Street Making Huge Lever Oriented Bets?

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Has finance become less unpopular just because of passage of time since the crisis? Or is it in part because tak is now so unpopular with the media and some intellectuals that it's taken over that pride of place. Do you have a single, biggest worry, however tiny, tiny, tiny it may be? I don't think i do. The thing that i find weirdest is the lack of volatility in the face of this very strange and volatile 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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