Episodes

  • Sick and Aging Trees: GSE, MBA, ICE
    Jan 10 2025

    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.

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    40 mins
  • Unfeasibly Tanned for This Time of Year: A Mailbag Episode
    Jan 3 2025

    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.

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    28 mins
  • Half Backronym: PISCES, ACI, MSTR
    Dec 20 2024

    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.

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    32 mins
  • Thin Gruel: Tetrahedron, Target, Firing
    Dec 13 2024

    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.

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    24 mins
  • Good Conspiracy: ESG, Assemblies, HPS
    Dec 6 2024

    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.

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    33 mins
  • Chickenization: An Odd Lots Crossover
    Nov 29 2024

    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.

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    38 mins
  • Perpetual Motion Machine: Adani, MSTR, OSTK
    Nov 22 2024

    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.

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    30 mins
  • Generous Portion: FTC, CMG, ETF
    Nov 15 2024

    Matt and Katie talk about merger arbitrage, affordable luxury handbags, burrito bowl sizing, securities fraud and double Warren Buffett.

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    29 mins