January 31, 2025· 15 min

Lots More with Matt Levine on MicroStrategy's Infinite Money Machine

Matt Levine

Orality

Model

90%

Highly oral (epic poetry, sermons, hip-hop)

Speaker Breakdown

HostJoe Weisenthal(626 words)

M:29%

HostTracy Alloway(1,846 words)

M:29%

GuestMatt Levine(452 words)

M:29%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic26%

massive, clearly, crazy

Engagement66%

you, our, your

Memory Aids100%

listen, so, okay

Repetition100%

like (129x), stock (36x), yeah (33x)

Parallelism64%

So have you heard the story ab..., So I went to write one of our ..., And we really do have the perf...

Sound Patterns100%

43 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"

Formulaic Phrases17%

you know what, i mean, so to speak

Literate Indicators

Hedging14%

could, might, maybe

Passive Voice4%

be replicated, be replicated, be replicated

Abstract Nouns17%

investment, prescription, medication

Subordination9%

because, until, while

Sentence Length21%

Avg: 10.2 words/sentence

Word Complexity46%

investment, analyze, anticipate

Academic Markers0%

Impersonal Style34%

226 personal pronouns found

Descriptive Style48%

automatically, family, really

Description

Everyone knows by now that MicroStrategy looks a lot like a giant Bitcoin ETF. Its founder, Michael Saylor, is a huge supporter of the cryptocurrency and his company has been snapping up billions of dollars worth of the coins. The strategy has so far proved successful. In fact, MicroStrategy is trading at a market cap that's worth more than the value of its entire Bitcoin portfolio. How does this happen? And how long can it keep going? In this episode, we speak with Bloomberg Opinion's Matt Levine. We talk to him about how MicroStrategy has created a sort of "perpetual motion machine" of investment and how the strategy is starting to expand to other companies, too. Money Stuff: Crypto Perpetual Motion Machines Only Bloomberg.com subscribers can get the Odd Lots newsletter in their inbox — now delivered every weekday — plus unlimited access to the site and app. Subscribe at bloomberg.com/subscriptions/oddlots See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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