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Matt Levine

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The example that was not core to my experience as a person in finance is insurance regulation. It’s very clearly too state-based and fragmented and gameable, and I think that there are probably some securities cases that are similar.

“The example that was not core to my experience as a person in finance is insurance regulation. It’s very clearly too state-based and fragmented and gameable, and I think that there are probably some securities cases that are similar.”
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Matt Levine
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Conversations with Tyler

02 / evaluation

I think we just live in a specialized economy, where if you ask “are financiers like a priesthood because they explain just enough to maintain a mystery,” yeah, but Facebook way more so.

“I think we just live in a specialized economy, where if you ask “are financiers like a priesthood because they explain just enough to maintain a mystery,” yeah, but Facebook way more so.”
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Matt Levine
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Conversations with Tyler

04 / evaluation

There’s a lot of interest among regulators in the people lying to their customers about large structured credit trades because those are bigger trades, and you can get bigger penalties because you’re defrauding a bank.

“There’s a lot of interest among regulators in the people lying to their customers about large structured credit trades because those are bigger trades, and you can get bigger penalties because you’re defrauding a bank.”
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Matt Levine
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Conversations with Tyler

05 / evaluation

I don’t know how I would amend it. But I think that there is a tension between the existence of this rule that on its face you would think would prohibit substantive meetings between companies and their investors, and the lived practice of finance in which companies meet with their investors, and have investor relations departments, and are owned by those investors, and have fiduciary duties to those investors.

“I don’t know how I would amend it. But I think that there is a tension between the existence of this rule that on its face you would think would prohibit substantive meetings between companies and their investors, and the lived practice of finance in which companies meet with their investors, and have investor relations departments, and are owned by those investors, and have fiduciary duties to those investors.”
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Matt Levine
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Conversations with Tyler

06 / evaluation

Their bet is that the long-term outcome of that is self-driving cars, and that they have some sort of advantage in being the provider of the self-driving car app, which I’m not sure if that is super compelling because it seems to me it’s hard to build a self-driving car.

“Their bet is that the long-term outcome of that is self-driving cars, and that they have some sort of advantage in being the provider of the self-driving car app, which I’m not sure if that is super compelling because it seems to me it’s hard to build a self-driving car.”
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Matt Levine
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Conversations with Tyler
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