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Money Stuff: The Podcast

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The audio companion to Bloomberg Opinion’s beloved Money Stuff column hosted by its author Matt Levine, “whose deadpan style mixes technical elucidation and wit” (NY Times). Once a week, Matt and his friend, Bloomberg News reporter and TV host Katie Greifeld, talk about Wall Street, finance and…other stuff. New episodes every Friday.

Episodes

Land Rich: EDR, KKR, SPAX.PVT

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mar 28, 202533 min

Unbundled Advice: A Mailbag Episode

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mar 21, 202525 min

American Dream: EDR, BIS, PILOT

Katie and Matt discuss appraisal arbitrage, fighting and wrestling, official worries about private credit liquidity and indoor skiing in New Jersey. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mar 14, 202528 min

Audible Frustration: C, ME, ETF

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.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mar 07, 202536 min

Funny Business Is My Business: PRIV, HHH, WARS

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Feb 28, 202535 min

Bespokeness: AI, Passthrough, UST

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Feb 14, 202532 min

Another Great Convergence: 7bps, APO, HOOD

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Feb 07, 202528 min

A Lineless World: AI, X, Darkness

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan 31, 202536 min

Messing With Models: Vanguard, Buffers, Two Sigma

Katie and Matt discuss a Vanguard tax oopsie, buffered Bitcoin ETFs, crypto utility, and a hedge fund model calibration oopsie. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan 24, 202530 min

Plant Some Petunias: Hindenburg, 360, ESG

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan 17, 202532 min

Sick and Aging Trees: GSE, MBA, ICE

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan 10, 202540 min

Unfeasibly Tanned for This Time of Year: A Mailbag Episode

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.  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 omnyst...

Jan 03, 202528 min

Half Backronym: PISCES, ACI, MSTR

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. 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 newslette...

Dec 20, 202432 min

Thin Gruel: Tetrahedron, Target, Firing

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. 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 privacy information....

Dec 13, 202424 min

Good Conspiracy: ESG, Assemblies, HPS

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 the world, plus access to a suite of subscriber-only newsletters. See omnystudio.com/listener for p...

Dec 06, 202433 min

Chickenization: An Odd Lots Crossover

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 bloomberg.com/podcastoffer . You’ll unlock deep reporting, data and analysis from reporters around t...

Nov 29, 202438 min

Perpetual Motion Machine: Adani, MSTR, OSTK

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Nov 22, 202430 min

Generous Portion: FTC, CMG, ETF

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 privacy information....

Nov 15, 202429 min

Garlic Cartel: Markets, Credit, Code

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 newsletters. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Nov 08, 202430 min

Public Breakups: Polymarket, Taxes, SMCI

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.

Nov 01, 202434 min

Some Cigarettes: Accreditation, Memes, Naughty ESG

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 subscriber-only newsletters. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Oct 25, 202432 min

John Collison

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.

Oct 18, 202449 min

Technically a Horse: ETF, ETF, ETF

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.

Oct 11, 202435 min

Men's Haircuts: SATS, FLUT, APO

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.

Oct 04, 202430 min

Money Has No Meaning: OpenAI, AIWB, WWJD

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

Sep 27, 202430 min

Modular Cat Trees: A Mailbag Episode

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.

Sep 20, 202436 min

Calm Knuckles: SEC, ETF, SPOT

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.

Sep 13, 202431 min

Fruitcakes and Nutcases: ETF, ATIC, DJT

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.

Sep 06, 202434 min

Pick Up the Phone: Shorts, PSUS, BLS

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.

Aug 30, 202428 min

Hurt People Hurt People: SBUX, LMEs, BofA

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.

Aug 16, 202430 min