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.

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Recent Episodes

Generous Portion: FTC, CMG, ETF Friday, November 15, 2024

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 <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/podcast

Garlic Cartel: Markets, Credit, Code Friday, November 8, 2024

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 <a hr

Public Breakups: Polymarket, Taxes, SMCI Friday, November 1, 2024

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.</

Some Cigarettes: Accreditation, Memes, Naughty ESG Friday, October 25, 2024

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 specia

John Collison Friday, October 18, 2024

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 <a href="h

Technically a Horse: ETF, ETF, ETF Friday, October 11, 2024

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 i

Men's Haircuts: SATS, FLUT, APO Friday, October 4, 2024

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.

Money Has No Meaning: OpenAI, AIWB, WWJD Friday, September 27, 2024

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

Modular Cat Trees: A Mailbag Episode Friday, September 20, 2024

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' Mo

Calm Knuckles: SEC, ETF, SPOT Friday, September 13, 2024

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.

Fruitcakes and Nutcases: ETF, ATIC, DJT Friday, September 6, 2024

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 qu

Pick Up the Phone: Shorts, PSUS, BLS Friday, August 30, 2024

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.

Hurt People Hurt People: SBUX, LMEs, BofA Friday, August 16, 2024

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.</

Guy on Twitter: PSUS, Left, ETFs Friday, August 2, 2024

Matt and Katie discuss Pershing Square USA's IPO, Citron Research's short-and-distort charges, bond market liquidity, and Katie's trip to Paris to watch running.See omnystudio.com/listener for privac

All the Biggest Tombstones: M&A, ETF, Mailbag Friday, July 26, 2024

Katie and Matt discuss fees for mergers and acquisitions, private assets in ETFs, liquidity mismatches, and reader questions about asset-manager parties, poker staking and finite alpha.See omnystudio.com

Don’t Hate the Player: DJT, Bets, Funds Friday, July 19, 2024

Katie and Matt discuss Trump Media’s stock sale, people who are too good at sports betting and stock trading, and single-stock private funds. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Blood Farming: Purdue Pharma, empty voting and frozen heads Friday, July 12, 2024

Katie and Matt discuss nonconsensual third-party releases, what comes next for the Oxycontin bankruptcy, empty voting in proxy fights, and writing your future clone into your will. Also we tease Katie's sci-fi novel and introduce a new member of Matt's

Just Keep Bidding: MMTLP, PE, ETFs Friday, June 28, 2024

Katie and Matt discuss short squeezes past, present and future, interviewing for private equity jobs two years in advance, and how if you want to own stock but with less risk, you can just sell some of your stock.See <a href="https://omnystudio.

Xs and Os: Trader U, VORB, QXO Friday, June 21, 2024

Katie and Matt discuss auditing classes at portfolio manager school, getting on television by pretending to buy public companies, and how to make a few billion dollars by rolling up the building products distribution industry.See <a href="https:

Uncatchable Mouse Jigglers: TSLA, PARA, WFC WFH Friday, June 14, 2024

Matt and Katie discuss Elon's big payday (maybe), Paramount's lost deal and Wells Fargo's vice president of screen monitoring.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.