How Do You Avoid Writing on Political Topics When It Feels Like What the Rest of the World Is Writing About?

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CNN's John Defterios takes on questions from the front row. How do you avoid writing about political topics when it feels like what everyone else is talking about? Does an editor just kind of strike the paragraphs right before posting? And how has crypto changed your mind about some of your beliefs around finance and economics?

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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