Money Stuff: The Podcast

Money Stuff: The Podcast

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

August 15, 2025 29 mins

Katie and Matt discuss reader questions about Blooming Onion futures, IPO pops, alternative treasury companies, sports bar hedging, no-penalty CDs, spirit securities, “internet personality” as a career and news anchor vocal training. 

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Katie and Matt discuss Matt's vacation plans, Elon Musk's propensity to ruin them, Musk's new good-faith payment from Tesla, his work schedule, Tesla as a car company vs. Tesla as the future of life, Regulation FD, tone and body language, hedge funds vs. long-only investors, retail corporate access, on-cycle recruiting and the heat death of the universe.

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Katie and Matt discuss retail private assets, offsetting unicorn closed-end funds, Matt’s infrequent trading in his personal account, FX derivatives, unsophisticated clients, limited upside with unlimited downside, hurricanes, never-pay insurance policies and a call for mailbag questions.

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Katie and Matt discuss bird gender reveal parties, meme stocks, short squeezes, AI as a distillation of human wisdom, dispersion trades, ETF tax efficiency, heartbeats, everything will be a tokenized ETF, the Qs, ETF marketing budgets and the rule against perpetuities.

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July 18, 2025 40 mins

Katie and Matt discuss search funds, post-MBA career paths, Katie’s future in horse barn ownership, search-fund flips, the Windsurf quasi-acqui-hire deal, Vanguard and Strategy, the function of index funds, owning the global financial portfolio and Perching Square Capital Management’s closed-end fund.

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July 11, 2025 32 mins

Katie and Matt talk about dreams, Jane Street's Indian options trade, XAI, Tesla governance, sports gambling and prediction markets.

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July 4, 2025 54 mins

Katie and Matt talk with Gappy Paleologo of Balyasny Asset Management about gardening leave, what makes a good quant researcher, factor models, the social function of hedge funds, AI and journalists as portfolio managers.

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Matt and Katie discuss Boomer-candy ETFs, autocallables, private-credit trading, volatility laundering and Mark Zuckerberg's hiring spree.

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June 20, 2025 62 mins

Matt and Katie talk with their guest, Cliff Asness of AQR, about momentum, meme stocks, value, market timing, publishing, academics, explaining factors, how much to charge for alpha, private assets and machine learning.

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June 13, 2025 30 mins

Matt and Katie discuss the Michael Saylor vs. Jim Chanos debate, financial gibberish, the mid-2000s federal clerkship hiring plan, private equity recruiting and mid-frequency trading.

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June 6, 2025 32 mins

Katie and Matt discuss Wells Fargo’s asset cap, credit ratings conflicts of interest, private credit controversies in the insurance business, why BBB- is the best rating, Main Line real estate prices, Marshall Wace, hiring cheaters at hedge funds and signals from the sell side.

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Katie and Matt discuss Katie’s new bird, the legality of tariffs, the TACO trade, rooting for the nondelegation doctrine, implicit guarantees, the money to be made if Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are re-privatized, stuffing Bitcoins into public companies and owning the global financial asset portfolio.

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Katie and Matt talk with Ryan Patch and Jon Seale of Great Gotham Challenge about building puzzle hunts for the hedge fund manager who has everything.

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May 16, 2025 34 mins

Matt and Katie discuss leveraging up your 401(k), everyone's love for putting private credit into retirement accounts, mortgages versus margin loans, college finance clubs, travel sports and how to get Elon Musk paid.

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Katie and Matt discuss Warren Buffett's retirement, his successor at Berkshire Hathaway, his other successor (Bill Ackman), OpenAI's restructuring, Sam Altman's incentives and Medicaid provider taxes.

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May 2, 2025 26 mins

Matt and Katie talk about what Tesla is, splitting the roles of CEO and Technoking, the Musk attention auction, the benefits of not paying attention to X debt prices, and why everyone likes private assets.

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April 25, 2025 37 mins

Matt and Katie talk general craziness, tariffs, Jerome Powell, volatility and predictability, plus Goldman pay, alts managers versus banks, Twenty One and negative Bitcoin per share.

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April 18, 2025 25 mins

Matt and Katie answer reader questions about law firm IPOs, cyber horses, private credit marketplaces, S&P 500 basis ETFs, the option value of personal bankruptcy, names for children/horses/ETFs and ETFs of BDCs.

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Matt and Katie discuss fake tariff tweets, real tariff Truths, swaps, futures, basis trades and and ETF for shorting leveraged ETFs.

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April 4, 2025 32 mins

Matt and Katie do not discuss tariffs but do discuss meme stock mini-IPOs, the stablecoin business, adult custodians of T-bills, booping some Circle coins, valuing X and xAI, X/xAI synergies, other possible Musk mergers, buying Tesla stock in order to complain about Elon Musk, and what we would do if someone gave us $7 million by mistake.

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