Hello, and welcome to the meme lord takeover episode of Slaked Money.

Your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios.

I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios.

Hello, hello.

With Elizabeth Spires.

Hello.

And guys, we have the perfect guest on for this week.

Welcome, Matt Levine. Hi, thanks for having me.

Matt Levine, you need no introduction, but introduce yourself anyway. Who are you?

I'm a columnist for Bloomberg opinion. I write a daily-ish newsletter called Money Stuff.

Recently, it's been Elon Musk's stuff. And I just published a long

article in Bloomberg Business Week about crypto. Which is awesome. Everyone should read it. Go out,

buy it in print if you can, because it looks beautiful in print. Those copies are going to be

scarce. Collectors items. You should make them into NFTs, obviously. Please don't make that joke.

Sorry. You're the 40th person to make that joke NFTs, obviously. Please don't make that joke. Sorry.

You're the 40th person to make that joke this week. First to do it on Slate Money. That's true. We're going to talk about that article, obviously. We have so much to talk about. We're going to talk about the cryptos. We're going to talk about Credit Suisse, which is breaking itself up. We are, of course, going to talk about Elon Musk buying Twitter, which is now official. It has happened. Twitter is now owned

by Elon Musk. It is a fun show. You're going to love it. It's all coming up on Slate Money.

Okay, so, Matt, it finally fucking happened.

I know.

I was not expecting it to have happened by now.

Recording on Friday morning.

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