Money Stuff: The Podcast

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. Become a Bloomberg.com subscriber using our special intro offer at bloomberg.com/podcastoffer . You’ll unlock deep reporting, data and analysis from reporters around...

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. You can listen to Odd Lots' Beak Capitalism here , here , and here . Become a Bloomberg.com subscriber using our special intro offer at...

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. Become a Bloomberg.com subscriber using our special intro offer at bloomberg.com/podcastoffer . You’ll unlock deep reporting, data and analysis from reporters around the world, plus access to a suite of subscriber-only newsletters. Se...

Matt and Katie talk about merger arbitrage, affordable luxury handbags, burrito bowl sizing, securities fraud and double Warren Buffett. Become a Bloomberg.com subscriber using our special intro offer at bloomberg.com/podcastoffer . You’ll unlock deep reporting, data and analysis from reporters around the world, plus access to a suite of subscriber-only newsletters. See omnystudio.com/listener for...

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. Become a Bloomberg.com subscriber using our special intro offer at bloomberg.com/podcastoffer . You’ll unlock deep reporting, data and analysis from reporters around the world, plus access to a suite of subscriber-only newslett...

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.   Become a Bloomberg.com subscriber using our special intro offer at bloomberg.com/podcastoffer . You’ll unlock deep reporting, data and analysis from reporters around the world, plus access to a suite of subscribe...

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katie and Matt discuss bond haircuts, literal haircuts, sports gambling, single-stock 0dte gambling and private assets in retirement accounts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katie and Matt discuss nonprofits, capped-profits, for-profits, chatbot brokers, chatbot ETFs and biblically responsible investing.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katie and Matt discuss SEC cell phone location data, private credit ETFs, and having robots make fake songs for the streaming revenue. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katie and Matt discuss single-stock leveraged ETFs, insurance for taxis and Florida real estate, the Trump Media lockup, and whether there are more readers of Money Stuff or Truth Social. Also, there will be a mailbag episode so we want good mailbag questions.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katie and Matt discuss short selling disclaimers, how to sell a closed-end fund and calling up the government to get payroll revisions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A between-vacations episode in which Katie and Matt discuss Starbucks's new CEO, the capital solutions business, banking hours and being a horse. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Matt and Katie discuss Pershing Square USA's IPO, Citron Research's short-and-distort charges, bond market liquidity, and Katie's trip to Paris to watch running. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katie and Matt discuss fees for mergers and acquisitions, private assets in ETFs, liquidity mismatches, and reader questions about asset-manager parties, poker staking and finite alpha. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katie and Matt discuss Trump Media’s stock sale, people who are too good at sports betting and stock trading, and single-stock private funds.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katie and Matt discuss nonconsensual third-party releases, what comes next for the Oxycontin bankruptcy, empty voting in proxy fights, and writing your future clone into your will. Also we tease Katie's sci-fi novel and introduce a new member of Matt's family. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katie and Matt discuss short squeezes past, present and future, interviewing for private equity jobs two years in advance, and how if you want to own stock but with less risk, you can just sell some of your stock. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katie and Matt discuss auditing classes at portfolio manager school, getting on television by pretending to buy public companies, and how to make a few billion dollars by rolling up the building products distribution industry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Matt and Katie discuss Elon's big payday (maybe), Paramount's lost deal and Wells Fargo's vice president of screen monitoring. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Matt and Katie discuss a new stock exchange in Texas (and also New Jersey), Bill Ackman's multiple public offerings and what Roaring Kitty is up to. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Matt and Katie discuss the move to T+1 stock settlement, Elon Musk's pay vote, Bill Hwang's trial and a fat finger trade. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.