No Nap Rooms: Credit, Peace, 24X
Katie and Matt discuss late-cycle credit accidents, dancing while the music plays, banks vs. private credit, the Nobel Peace Prize, institutional-grade prediction markets, 23-hour-a-day stock trading,...
17 Okt 202531min
How the Snake Dies: ICE, AMD, ARKK
Katie and Matt discuss finance book parties, the ICE/Polymarket deal, understanding and pricing the future, the Grossman-Stiglitz paradox, prediction-market spillovers, sports quants, tokenization, th...
10 Okt 202532min
Loads of Vultures: Funds, Agents, Bets
Matt and Katie discuss multistrategy hedge funds, talent sieves, agents vs. headhunters, hedge fund managers' sense of their market value, agents for AI researchers, same-game parlays, sportsbook mark...
3 Okt 202531min
This Is Weird: A Mailbag Episode
Matt and Katie discuss reader mail about tungsten cubes, monthly financial reporting, long-term levered ETFs, the shrinking public markets, betting on onion prices, betting on stock prices, limiting s...
26 Sep 202531min
Chaos Factor: ARKF, 10Q, 10%
Matt and Katie discuss ARK heartbeat (?) trades, IPO allocations, ETFs as widgets, quarterly earnings, barriers to going public, structured notes, installment index puts and Katie’s vacation plans.See...
19 Sep 202534min
A Wounded Lion or a Beaten Mule: HF, TSLA, FOTSBA
Katie and Matt discuss the career advantages of losing a billion dollars, wounded lions, hedge fund comp structures and stock prices, Elon Musk’s comp structure, reasons for Tesla to invest in xAI, th...
12 Sep 202525min
Voluntary Nudge Nudge: IEEPA, TROW, FX
Katie and Matt discuss the taxation power, IEEPA, tariff refunds, government revenue sharing, voluntary tariffs, alternative/traditional asset manager partnerships, Goldman buying a little bit of T. R...
5 Sep 202526min
Cool and Fun for Capital Markets Nerds: Tayvis, MSTR, IPO
Katie and Matt discuss Taylor Swift, dating podcasters, the betting markets/financial markets convergence, commodity insider trading, a magical money printing machine, weird preferred stocks, the cryp...
29 Aug 202532min
