Matt and Katie discuss the Michael Saylor vs. Jim Chanos debate, financial gibberish, the mid-2000s federal clerkship hiring plan, private equity recruiting and mid-frequency trading.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Learn to Perch: WFC, BBB, TOPS
Katie and Matt discuss Wells Fargo’s asset cap, credit ratings conflicts of interest, private credit controversies in the insurance business, why BBB- is the best rating, Main Line real estate prices, Marshall Wace, hiring cheaters at hedge funds and signals from the sell side.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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What Growing Starlings Need: USCIT, GSEs, SBET
Katie and Matt discuss Katie’s new bird, the legality of tariffs, the TACO trade, rooting for the nondelegation doctrine, implicit guarantees, the money to be made if Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are re-privatized, stuffing Bitcoins into public companies and owning the global financial asset portfolio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Midnight Madness: Ryan Patch and Jon Seale
Katie and Matt talk with Ryan Patch and Jon Seale of Great Gotham Challenge about building puzzle hunts for the hedge fund manager who has everything.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Full of Mirth: 401(k), Clubs, TSLA
Matt and Katie discuss leveraging up your 401(k), everyone's love for putting private credit into retirement accounts, mortgages versus margin loans, college finance clubs, travel sports and how to get Elon Musk paid.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The audio companion to Bloomberg Opinion’s beloved Money Stuff column hosted by its author Matt Levine, “whose deadpan style mixes technical elucidation and wit” (NY Times). Once a week, Matt and his friend, Bloomberg News reporter and TV host Katie Greifeld, talk about Wall Street, finance and…other stuff. New episodes every Friday.
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