On episode 68 of The Compound and Friends, Matt Levine and Mary Childs join Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown to discuss Matt's epic cover-to-cover Bloomberg piece on crypto, Elon's first moves as Twitter owner, Facebook's collapse, the future of Credit Suisse, the best finance books, and more!

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00:00 - Intro
07:11 - The Crypto Story
17:36 - Sam Bankman-Fried
33:25 - Elon and Twitter
45:03 - Facebook Blowup
47:55 - Credit Suisse / First Boston
53:42 - The Bond King
58:05 - Favorites

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