Podcast Episodes

Kinda Spooky: META, AI, TSLA

Katie and Matt discuss Halloween costumes, AI capital spending, hybrid financing, K-cup JVs, investment grade private credit, the metaverse (?!?), the OpenAI reorganization, OpenAI capital needs and …

Published on 21 hours ago

Indoor Cat: JPM, AI, 777

Katie and Matt discuss JPMorgan’s new headquarters, in-office pubs, in-office gyms, the JPMorgan District, specialist fine-tuning of AI models, pls fix memes, crushing investment banking analysts’ ho…

Published on 1 week ago

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…

Published on 2 weeks ago

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, t…

Published on 3 weeks ago

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 mar…

Published on 4 weeks ago

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 …

Published on 1 month ago

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.

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Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

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, t…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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. …

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

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 cry…

Published on 2 months ago