EP 19: Matt Levine, Meme Stocks, Crypto Crash and Terrible Attempts at Crime

The Logan Bartlett Show

Is There a Bias in the Financial Industry?

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I think there's like a em en, like main stream financial jounalism. There's a sort of, like bias that people are not interested in technicalities and the weeds or complicated products. And so, yes, it's like, like aderivative structure. And i wasn't like, you know, an evil person trying to put one over on my clients. I'm just doing complicated, interesting structures and trying to solve puzzles. That was appealing to me, and it felt appealing to a lot of people that i worked with.

(00:00) Intro

(00:13) Intro Zach and Packy

(01:07) Solana

(05:14) Crypto Ecosystem

(13:00) Crypto Use Cases

(18:02) Crypto Investments

(21:45) Elon’s Ultimatum

(27:43) Billionaire Senate Run

(32:04) VC Firm’s Scam & Media War

(37:39) Sheryl Sandberg Steps Down

(48:03) Matt Levine Intro

(49:39) Leaving Goldman Sachs

(52:26) Joining Deal Breaker

(55:04) Choosing Topics

(1:01:08) Crypto as a Lab for Financial Institutions

(1:02:08) Deal Breaker to Bloomberg

(1:07:00) Finance Bro Groupies

(1:08:14) r/WallStreetBets

(1:12:31) Insider Trading

(1:15:17) Crypto

(1:22:13) Elon and Twitter

(1:25:08) Elon and the SEC

(1:29:01) Writing on Unexpected Topics

(1:31:16) Impact of Meme Stocks

(1:33:11) Future Writing

(1:34:51) Outro

Links:

VC threatened a media war against a start-up after unsolicited investment https://sifted.eu/articles/heroes-amazon-solid-capital/

Elon Musk’s Ultimatum to Tesla Execs: Return to the Office or Get Out https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-01/musk-s-tesla-ultimatum-return-to-office-or-work-somewhere-else

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1531867103854317568?s=20&t=cKRzLoqnu1HMX-LPLCbZFQ

Solana goes down for over 6 hours https://cryptopotato.com/solana-goes-down-for-over-6-hours-validators-prepare-for-restart/

Coinbase pauses new hiring and rescinds accepted offers https://blog.coinbase.com/update-on-hiring-plans-bcedfa634989

US Charges Ex-OpenSea Exec With NFT Insider Trading https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/06/01/us-charges-ex-opensea-exec-with-nft-insider-trading/

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Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir

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Music: Griff Lawson

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