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Chaos Factor: ARKF, 10Q, 10%
19 september 2025 · 34 min
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. Lees meer
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A Wounded Lion or a Beaten Mule: HF, TSLA, FOTSBA
12 september 2025 · 26 min
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, the New York City mayoral race, insider trading on prediction markets and Polymarket coming home. Lees meer
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Voluntary Nudge Nudge: IEEPA, TROW, FX
5 september 2025 · 26 min
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. Rowe, private assets in target-date funds, deal-contingent hedges, private equity becoming the main clients of investment banks (and hedge funds). Lees meer
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Cool and Fun for Capital Markets Nerds: Tayvis, MSTR, IPO
29 augustus 2025 · 32 min
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 crypto treasury boom, Money Stuff’s effect on academic tenure, IPO pops, private company pops and security-based swaps. Lees meer
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Dinosaur Bone Treasury Company: A Mailbag Episode
15 augustus 2025 · 30 min
Katie and Matt discuss reader questions about Blooming Onion futures, IPO pops, alternative treasury companies, sports bar hedging, no-penalty CDs, spirit securities, “internet personality” as a career and news anchor vocal training. Lees meer
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Tellers in Dallas: TSLA, FD, PE
8 augustus 2025 · 34 min
Katie and Matt discuss Matt's vacation plans, Elon Musk's propensity to ruin them, Musk's new good-faith payment from Tesla, his work schedule, Tesla as a car company vs. Tesla as the future of life, Regulation FD, tone and body language, hedge funds vs. long-only investors, retail corporate access, on-cycle recruiting and the heat death of the universe. Lees meer
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Matt Levine Ripped My Face Off: CEF, FX, A
1 augustus 2025 · 26 min
Katie and Matt discuss retail private assets, offsetting unicorn closed-end funds, Matt’s infrequent trading in his personal account, FX derivatives, unsophisticated clients, limited upside with unlimited downside, hurricanes, never-pay insurance policies and a call for mailbag questions. Lees meer
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Relevant Markets Content: KSS, 351, QQQ
25 juli 2025 · 36 min
Katie and Matt discuss bird gender reveal parties, meme stocks, short squeezes, AI as a distillation of human wisdom, dispersion trades, ETF tax efficiency, heartbeats, everything will be a tokenized ETF, the Qs, ETF marketing budgets and the rule against perpetuities. Lees meer
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Horse Barn: HVAC, Windsurf, Vanguard
18 juli 2025 · 41 min
Katie and Matt discuss search funds, post-MBA career paths, Katie’s future in horse barn ownership, search-fund flips, the Windsurf quasi-acqui-hire deal, Vanguard and Strategy, the function of index funds, owning the global financial portfolio and Perching Square Capital Management’s closed-end fund. Lees meer
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Sports: India, TSLA, Kalshi
11 juli 2025 · 33 min
Katie and Matt talk about dreams, Jane Street's Indian options trade, XAI, Tesla governance, sports gambling and prediction markets. Lees meer
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Gappy Paleologo
4 juli 2025 · 54 min
Katie and Matt talk with Gappy Paleologo of Balyasny Asset Management about gardening leave, what makes a good quant researcher, factor models, the social function of hedge funds, AI and journalists as portfolio managers. Lees meer
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Catastrophe in the Name: ETF, Trades, AI
27 juni 2025 · 32 min
Matt and Katie discuss Boomer-candy ETFs, autocallables, private-credit trading, volatility laundering and Mark Zuckerberg's hiring spree. Lees meer
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Cliff Asness
20 juni 2025 · 1 uur 3 min
Matt and Katie talk with their guest, Cliff Asness of AQR, about momentum, meme stocks, value, market timing, publishing, academics, explaining factors, how much to charge for alpha, private assets and machine learning. Lees meer
You can also watch this episode on YouTube.
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Smack-ish: MSTR, PE, MFT
13 juni 2025 · 31 min
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. Lees meer
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Learn to Perch: WFC, BBB, TOPS
6 juni 2025 · 32 min
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. Lees meer
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What Growing Starlings Need: USCIT, GSEs, SBET
30 mei 2025 · 40 min
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. Lees meer
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Midnight Madness: Ryan Patch and Jon Seale
23 mei 2025 · 40 min
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. Lees meer
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Full of Mirth: 401(k), Clubs, TSLA
16 mei 2025 · 35 min
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. Lees meer
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A Broad Church: BRK/A, OpenAI, Medicaid
9 mei 2025 · 35 min
Katie and Matt discuss Warren Buffett's retirement, his successor at Berkshire Hathaway, his other successor (Bill Ackman), OpenAI's restructuring, Sam Altman's incentives and Medicaid provider taxes. Lees meer
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Visionary Kibbitzer: TSLA, X, KKR
2 mei 2025 · 27 min
Matt and Katie talk about what Tesla is, splitting the roles of CEO and Technoking, the Musk attention auction, the benefits of not paying attention to X debt prices, and why everyone likes private assets. Lees meer
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Reptile Brain: ???, GS, XXI
25 april 2025 · 38 min
Matt and Katie talk general craziness, tariffs, Jerome Powell, volatility and predictability, plus Goldman pay, alts managers versus banks, Twenty One and negative Bitcoin per share. Lees meer
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One Horse at a Time: A Mailbag Episode
18 april 2025 · 25 min
Matt and Katie answer reader questions about law firm IPOs, cyber horses, private credit marketplaces, S&P 500 basis ETFs, the option value of personal bankruptcy, names for children/horses/ETFs and ETFs of BDCs. Lees meer
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Awkward Pauses: Tariffs, Basis, Leverage
11 april 2025 · 27 min
Matt and Katie discuss fake tariff tweets, real tariff Truths, swaps, futures, basis trades and and ETF for shorting leveraged ETFs. Lees meer
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Finders Keepers: IPO, XAI, Subs
4 april 2025 · 32 min
Matt and Katie do not discuss tariffs but do discuss meme stock mini-IPOs, the stablecoin business, adult custodians of T-bills, booping some Circle coins, valuing X and xAI, X/xAI synergies, other possible Musk mergers, buying Tesla stock in order to complain about Elon Musk, and what we would do if someone gave us $7 million by mistake. Lees meer
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Land Rich: EDR, KKR, SPAX.PVT
28 maart 2025 · 33 min
Katie and Matt discuss the Endeavor deal, Carl Icahn, dodging brokers' phone calls, strategic holdings, a baby Berkshire boom, Katie's contact lens reorder, reinvesting crypto winnings in land, real-time-ish private stock prices, OpenAI's lack of stock volatility and distracting stock prices. Lees meer
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Unbundled Advice: A Mailbag Episode
21 maart 2025 · 25 min
Matt and Katie answer reader questions about the quality of cocoa beans, who picks the loans in private credit ETFs, whether everything is stupid now, how to work quant hedge fund money laundering into your novel and how to save on financial advisor fees. Lees meer
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American Dream: EDR, BIS, PILOT
14 maart 2025 · 28 min
Katie and Matt discuss appraisal arbitrage, fighting and wrestling, official worries about private credit liquidity and indoor skiing in New Jersey. Lees meer
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Audible Frustration: C, ME, ETF
7 maart 2025 · 36 min
Matt and Katie discuss Citigroup's fat fingers and confusing computer screen, 23andMe's troubles, serial-killer cousins, ETF sales practices and taking a holistic view of customer service. Lees meer
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Funny Business Is My Business: PRIV, HHH, WARS
28 februari 2025 · 35 min
Katie and Matt discuss Apollo and State Street's private credit exchange-traded fund launch, Bill Ackman's efforts to build his own Berkshire Hathaway, and memecoins as bankruptcy bidding currency. Lees meer
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Bespokeness: AI, Passthrough, UST
14 februari 2025 · 32 min
Katie and Matt discuss the fighting over OpenAI, paying for hedge funds' photocopies, whether hedge funds are worth it or you should just buy buffer ETFs, and Microsoft vs. Treasuries. Lees meer
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Another Great Convergence: 7bps, APO, HOOD
7 februari 2025 · 28 min
Katie and Matt discuss Vanguard's big mutual fund fee cut, plans for private credit trading and the one glorious day when you could bet on the Pro Football Championship in your brokerage app. Lees meer
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A Lineless World: AI, X, Darkness
31 januari 2025 · 36 min
Katie and Matt discuss the DeepSeek shock, AI and GDP, Elon Musk's X buyout debt, trading in the dark and double levered Melaniacoin ETFs. Lees meer
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Messing With Models: Vanguard, Buffers, Two Sigma
24 januari 2025 · 30 min
Katie and Matt discuss a Vanguard tax oopsie, buffered Bitcoin ETFs, crypto utility, and a hedge fund model calibration oopsie. Lees meer
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Plant Some Petunias: Hindenburg, 360, ESG
17 januari 2025 · 32 min
Matt and Katie discuss how hard it is to make money as a short-focused researcher, how not to get the best rate on a savings account, and whether ESG is about doing good or doing well. Lees meer
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Sick and Aging Trees: GSE, MBA, ICE
10 januari 2025 · 40 min
Katie and Matt discuss the return of the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac trade, a business school class project that came true in real life, and taking cocoa out of commodity exchange warehouses. Lees meer
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Unfeasibly Tanned for This Time of Year: A Mailbag Episode
3 januari 2025 · 28 min
Katie and Matt answer reader questions about their paths into the world of finance, goth closing bell ceremonies, government insider trading, buying shares of other people's houses, "body language," the maximum number of ETFs and Martha Stewart. Lees meer
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Half Backronym: PISCES, ACI, MSTR
20 december 2024 · 32 min
Katie and Matt discuss insider trading in private companies, the process of generating financial acronyms, supermarket antitrust, the grand reopening party of a Kings supermarket in New Jersey, and MicroStrategy's index inclusion, convertible bonds, and whole deal. Lees meer
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Thin Gruel: Tetrahedron, Target, Firing
13 december 2024 · 24 min
Katie and Matt talk about levels of financial celebrity, The Onion's efforts to buy Infowars out of bankruptcy, whether DEI is securities fraud, and committing insider trading after getting fired. Lees meer
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Good Conspiracy: ESG, Assemblies, HPS
6 december 2024 · 33 min
Katie and Matt discuss whether index funds are illegal, whether ESG investing leads to cartel-like profits, whether jury duty for index fund investors is a good idea and whether we are in a golden age for selling private credit firms. Lees meer
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Chickenization: An Odd Lots Crossover
29 november 2024 · 38 min
Katie and Matt sit down with Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal, hosts of the Odd Lots podcast, to discuss their new series on the chicken industry, Ray Dalio’s connection to McNuggets, cheap protein, the Victorian chicken bubble, factory farming and Chicken Libor. Lees meer
You can listen to Odd Lots' Beak Capitalism here, here, and here.
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Perpetual Motion Machine: Adani, MSTR, OSTK
22 november 2024 · 30 min
Matt and Katie discuss the Adani bribery charges, the future of FCPA enforcement, MicroStrategy's Bitcoin strategy and the technology and legality of short squeezes. Lees meer
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Generous Portion: FTC, CMG, ETF
15 november 2024 · 29 min
Matt and Katie talk about merger arbitrage, affordable luxury handbags, burrito bowl sizing, securities fraud and double Warren Buffett. Lees meer
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Garlic Cartel: Markets, Credit, Code
8 november 2024 · 30 min
Matt and Katie discuss the price of garlic, anticompetitive price disclosure, the private credit gold rush and (allegedly) downloading quant models and fleeing the country. Lees meer
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Public Breakups: Polymarket, Taxes, SMCI
1 november 2024 · 34 min
Katie and Matt talk on Halloween about what election market prices might mean, how to defer taxes and Super Micro's auditors resigning in a huff. Lees meer
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Some Cigarettes: Accreditation, Memes, Naughty ESG
25 oktober 2024 · 32 min
Katie and Matt discuss taking tests to buy risky investments, growing up from meme stocks to boring retirement investing, and what happens when ESG funds smoke the occasional cigarette. Lees meer
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John Collison
18 oktober 2024 · 49 min
Matt and Katie talk with their first guest, John Collison, the co-founder and president of Stripe, about the financial services business, why payments are hard, what's good about crypto, why IPOs don't matter and how to fly planes. Lees meer
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Technically a Horse: ETF, ETF, ETF
11 oktober 2024 · 35 min
Katie and Matt discuss large ponies, small horses, puzzle hunts, portfolio trading, Jane Street’s lack of a CEO, tax deferral, covered calls and yieldmaxxing. Lees meer
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Men's Haircuts: SATS, FLUT, APO
4 oktober 2024 · 30 min
Katie and Matt discuss bond haircuts, literal haircuts, sports gambling, single-stock 0dte gambling and private assets in retirement accounts. Lees meer
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Money Has No Meaning: OpenAI, AIWB, WWJD
27 september 2024 · 30 min
Katie and Matt discuss nonprofits, capped-profits, for-profits, chatbot brokers, chatbot ETFs and biblically responsible investing. Lees meer
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Modular Cat Trees: A Mailbag Episode
20 september 2024 · 36 min
Katie and Matt answer reader questions about private markets being the new public markets, SEC fines, writing big stories, Icahn/Ackman activism, anti-leveraged ETFs, fake M&A, cat-based businesses, broker-dealers, naked shorts and our families' Money Stuff consumption. Lees meer
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