Strongly Worded Letters

Katie and Matt discuss the pricing of the SpaceX IPO, cash-settled derivatives gambling, S&P’s no-fast-tracking decision, index divergence, active-management benchmarking, SpaceX ESG, federal sports gambling regulation, Matt’s future coaching Little League, market integrity, brawls, everything is a…

Champagne and Caviar

Katie and Matt discuss the Knicks, the Jeffrey, hedging sports bets with sports bets, Google selling some stock, net equity issuance, taxes on stock vesting, Andrew Left, how long you have to be short, the decline of activist short selling and not saying dumb stuff in email.

Shameful Secret Heart

Katie and Matt discuss the SpaceX IPO, enterprise AI, Mars colonies, the Elon Musk premium, consternation about indexes, a no-Elon index, closet indexing, price-insensitive IPO demand, unconstrained Elon Musk, Robinhood AI agents, the universal wrapper for trade ideas, invisible transaction costs, …

Frisky Dentists

Katie and Matt discuss GameStop buying (?) eBay, authorized shares, socks, activism, negging, CDOs, CLOs, structured finance innovations, trading private credit, daily pricing, bad ways to own Anthropic stock, suing dentists and human assembly lines.

Timeless Wisdom: A Mailbag Episode

Katie and Matt discuss financial advisers, a little scooch of private credit, finance book recommendations, call options on time, expected returns, seating charts, rain creating liquidity, E and S vs. G, the church of capital allocation, the market for corporate control and corporate vs. human life…

Bag of Snakes

Katie and Matt discuss the downsides of home ownership, hedge fund managers who had a somewhat disappointing week, Pershing Square USA, the physics of closed-end funds, publicly listed hedge fund firms, the pod shop business, the psychology of investors in non-traded BDCs, the Avis short squeeze, S…

Economic Animals

Katie and Matt discuss bringing children to work, the weather in one corner of Charles de Gaulle airport, an infinite surface for market manipulation, bespoke parametric insurance, the Avis Budget short squeeze (maybe), the meme-stock playbook, SpaceX buying Cursor (maybe), SpaceX buying Tesla (may…

Hour of Slurping

Katie and Matt discuss the weather, NewBird AI, Long Blockchain, floating-strike convertible financing, meme AI diversification, dot AI, the meme ETF, public listing option value, shareholder voting, Exxon’s grudges, comptroller trolling, the horrifying sounds of coffee grading, spot vs. futures co…

Humiliation Ritual

Katie and Matt discuss Satoshi Nakamoto, spotting liars, Katie being a witch, Bill Ackman doing stuff, Universal Music Group, SPARCs, asymmetric derivatives trades, Matt’s dream money management career, doomsday funds, Elon Musk’s big thing, the SpaceX IPO, Grok for bankers, humiliating IPO pitches…

Also Sticky

Katie and Matt discuss conferences, baby names, private credit redemption requests, liquidity confusion, private credit inflows, Larry Fink’s annual letter, AI taking all the jobs, universal basic index funds, podcasters and fund managers being displaced by AI, shorting the consumer economy, owning…