What It Takes to Build One of the World's Biggest Banks
One of the mega-themes of the economy is that the big keep getting bigger. You see it in technology, where the megacap software companies are outperforming their smaller peers. And you see it in finan...
26 Tammi 1h 2min
Blackstone's Michael Zawadzki on How Private Credit Got so Big
We talk all the time about private credit. And we increasingly talk about it from the perspective of the AI buildout, and how all of these datacenters are being financed. But why did the space get so ...
23 Tammi 51min
Pimco CEO Manny Roman on Japanese Bonds and the Sell America Trade
Earlier this week, we saw something unusual happen in markets. The S&P 500 fell 2%, US Treasury yields rose, and the dollar simultaneously declined. This trifecta of market moves has rekindled talk of...
22 Tammi 46min
Why the Tech World Is Going Crazy for Claude Code
In the AI industry, there's always a hot new thing. First it was ChatGPT. Then it was the image generators. There was the DeepSeek moment. In the latter half of last year, everyone was excited about h...
19 Tammi 54min
Lots More on the Protests and Financial Crisis in Iran
One of the extraordinary elements of the civil unrest taking place in Iran is that it's almost impossible to know what's going on. There's a virtually complete news blackout, in part because of the go...
16 Tammi 22min
How to Make Money From the Booming Demand for Energy
One thing we can all agree on is that demand for energy, and in particular electricity, is growing by leaps and bounds. But past that, there is going to be a debate about who is best positioned, and w...
15 Tammi 51min
The Fight Over Fed Independence Just Got Taken To a Whole New Level
Even before Trump's victory in 2024, it was becoming clear that the Fed would come under political pressure like never before. The first year of the new administration bore that out. Not only had Fed ...
12 Tammi 33min
Cullen Roche on the Art of Building a Perfect Portfolio
For a long time, you could make plenty of money and sleep easy at night with a simple 60/40 portfolio. You put 60% of your money in stocks and 40% in Treasuries. The stocks generally went up. The Trea...
12 Tammi 54min
