Money Stuff: The Podcast

Katie and Matt discuss financial advisers, a little scooch of private credit, finance book recommendations, call options on time, expected returns, seating charts, rain creating liquidity, E and S vs. G, the church of capital allocation, the market for corporate control and corporate vs. human life cycles.
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Katie and Matt discuss the downsides of home ownership, hedge fund managers who had a somewhat disappointing week, Pershing Square USA, the physics of closed-end funds, publicly listed hedge fund firms, the pod shop business, the psychology of investors in non-traded BDCs, the Avis short squeeze, Section 16 short-swing profits and earnings call body language.
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Katie and Matt discuss bringing children to work, the weather in one corner of Charles de Gaulle airport, an infinite surface for market manipulation, bespoke parametric insurance, the Avis Budget short squeeze (maybe), the meme-stock playbook, SpaceX buying Cursor (maybe), SpaceX buying Tesla (maybe???), dual-class stock, robot armies annihilating each other off the shoulder of Orion, the word “gazumping” and the hedge fund hiring market.
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Katie and Matt discuss the weather, NewBird AI, Long Blockchain, floating-strike convertible financing, meme AI diversification, dot AI, the meme ETF, public listing option value, shareholder voting, Exxon’s grudges, comptroller trolling, the horrifying sounds of coffee grading, spot vs. futures commodity quality and banks foreclosing on shrimp to eat it.
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Katie and Matt discuss Satoshi Nakamoto, spotting liars, Katie being a witch, Bill Ackman doing stuff, Universal Music Group, SPARCs, asymmetric derivatives trades, Matt’s dream money management career, doomsday funds, Elon Musk’s big thing, the SpaceX IPO, Grok for bankers, humiliating IPO pitches and some ETF stuff for the ETF fans.
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