Money Stuff: The Podcast

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Katie and Matt discuss bond haircuts, literal haircuts, sports gambling, single-stock 0dte gambling and private assets in retirement accounts.

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Katie and Matt discuss nonprofits, capped-profits, for-profits, chatbot brokers, chatbot ETFs and biblically responsible investing. 

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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.

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Katie and Matt discuss SEC cell phone location data, private credit ETFs, and having robots make fake songs for the streaming revenue.

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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. 

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Katie and Matt discuss short selling disclaimers, how to sell a closed-end fund and calling up the government to get payroll revisions.

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A between-vacations episode in which Katie and Matt discuss Starbucks's new CEO, the capital solutions business, banking hours and being a horse.

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