Gues: I think more and more about how all of western culture is a footnote to iliod. Gues had a sort of idiosyncratic take on n book nine of the iliad. Ovid once wrote, in our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are. Do you agree with that? "I'm pretty bors probably accurate"
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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