i store up and organize material so that i may be able to draw upon it before long. What is prevent one from telling the truth, as he laughs? That was in english. Derivatives are the best derivatives. I tell people i'm an opinion colonist, and i don't have any opinions. And finallyt in laboring to be concise, i become obscure. Wa, i mean, horace b ten thumbs up. Horace.Horas the other: When you read like horace and catullus ar sort of paired with each other. You now thike the famous horace love poems are sort of more cynical and more at a remove from the 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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