What's the Most Underrated Neighborhood in New York City?

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Footnotes started in mediaeval times as commentary on the latin classics, including horace sure. The notion of having a single narrative with no distractions has been diminished by the internet and therefore footnets have become more appropriately valued. What's the most underrated neighbourhood of new york city? Iwas saydont i don't have an answer to that, because i have only lived in extremely highly rated neighbourhoods ilive.

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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