Money Stuff: The Podcast

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118

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Oct 2026

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EN-US

About the show

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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October 16, 202637 min

Release Me From This Demon

Matt and guest co-host Mary Childs discuss sports betting, swap regulation, mention markets, flat waffles, gambling in your brokerage account, the rise of prime brokerage, relationship businesses, holding bags when hedge funds have oopsies, narrower banking, Matt's lack of hand-wringing, Kelly Clarkson and the animatronic bird, Martin Shkreli’s various comeuppances and short-selling metaphysics. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

October 9, 202654 min

Jeremy Maletz

Matt talks to Jeremy Maletz, head of prediction markets at Susquehanna International Group, about hedging goat herder risk, flow versus bespoke trading, election factor hedging, adverse selection, correlation in prediction markets, and transitioning from sports gambling to trillion-dollar data center credit derivatives. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

October 2, 202641 min

Reintegration With the Default World

Matt and guest host Mary Childs discuss Baby Stuff: The Podcast, 351 exchange ETFs, substance over form, agentic bank runs, doing things for points, getting the Burn you need, seizing control of the company Slack, cotton market manipulation, paperwork and potential securities-fraud liability for destroying humanity. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

September 25, 202640 min

Re-run: Midnight Madness: Ryan Patch and Jon Seale

Ahead of Midnight Madness 2026, we revisit our May 2025 episode, when Katie and Matt spoke with Ryan Patch and Jon Seale of Great Gotham Challenge about building puzzle hunts for the hedge fund manager who has everything. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

September 18, 202638 min

Trying to Save the World Is No Excuse

Matt and guest co-host Silvia Killingsworth discuss late-summer nostalgia, Susquehanna's 100 Johns Doe, hedging options market making, nervously walking back and forth at the frontier, the economic and/or human extinction benefits of slowing AI training, writing about AI vs. AI writing, psychological liquidity mismatches and putting pensions back into 401(k)s. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

September 11, 202640 min

What's the Concern?

Matt and guest host Max Abelson discuss money and power, Kawhi Leonard, independent investigations, the DAT trade, why anyone talks to us, the aesthetic appreciation of finance, Robinhood vs. AMC, meme-stock bazaars, Cede & Co., stock ledgers on the blockchain, Grayson Moorhead Securities, heists of bearer securities, the Apollo premium, geniality league tables and contextually appropriate “oohs.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

September 4, 202637 min

Learn More Gooder

Matt and guest host Mary Childs discuss CDS gossip, suboptimal mortgage refinancing, cheap options, shopping for savings accounts, billing by the hour, AI and the apprenticeship model, second-price auctions, chandelier bidding, the IVV to VOO pipeline, rich person trades vs. hedge fund trades and how much we all miss Katie. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

August 14, 202649 min

Re-Run: Boaz Weinstein

Matt and Katie talked in March to Boaz Weinstein of Saba Capital Management about his tenders for OBDC II and SREIT, semi-liquid fund liquidity, reflexivity, the lure of permanent capital, private credit NAVs, public vs. private BDC discounts, preserving brand value, volatility laundering, howling at the moon, bowling and, why not, DATs. You can also watch this episode on YouTube. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

July 31, 202626 min

No Kiddie Pool

Matt and guest co-host Silvia Killingsworth discuss the Situational Awareness situation, record dates, CVRs, and sourcing weird volatility risk from retail customers to sell to hedge funds. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

July 24, 202629 min

Worried Noises

Katie and Matt discuss 351 exchanges, the Gabe Plotkin ETF, the two laws of tax, tax code is not quite law, Gary Gensler’s cell phone, crypto vs. the SEC, the Truth API, nuclear fusion, sports indexes and ETFs of 351 ETFs of ETFs. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.