Hello, and welcome to the meme lord takeover episode of Slate 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, collector's items. You should make them into NFTs, obviously. Please don't make that joke.

Sorry. You're the 40th 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.

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