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

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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March 28, 2025 32 mins

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.

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March 21, 2025 24 mins

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.

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March 14, 2025 27 mins

Katie and Matt discuss appraisal arbitrage, fighting and wrestling, official worries about private credit liquidity and indoor skiing in New Jersey.

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March 7, 2025 35 mins

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. 

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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.

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February 14, 2025 31 mins

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.

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February 7, 2025 28 mins

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.

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January 31, 2025 35 mins

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.

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Katie and Matt discuss a Vanguard tax oopsie, buffered Bitcoin ETFs, crypto utility, and a hedge fund model calibration oopsie.

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January 17, 2025 31 mins

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.

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January 10, 2025 39 mins

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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December 20, 2024 31 mins

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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December 13, 2024 24 mins

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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December 6, 2024 32 mins

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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November 29, 2024 38 mins

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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November 22, 2024 30 mins

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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