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AI Stocks Just Tanked. Why Is Wall Street Talking About Enron?
Oct 15, 2026
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NEOCLOUDS EXPLAINED: Your ULTIMATE Guide to AI’s Least Understood Business
Oct 11, 2026
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Is Anthropic's $2 Trillion IPO in Jeopardy? What We Learned from Leaked IPO Prospectus
Oct 01, 2026
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We're back at the intersection of AI and high…
How Nvidia's Recent Acquisition Changes the AI Game Feat. Morgan Stanley's Head of US Thematic Research
Sep 27, 2026
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NVIDIA just agreed to buy Hugging Face, and the deal…
Why Stocks Could Drop 10% Before Year-End: feat. Wellington Macro Strategist Mike Medeiros
Sep 18, 2026
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I got to ask Scott Bessent ONE QUESTION. His answer shocked me.
Sep 06, 2026
Everyone in the financial media is telling you the same story: Scott Bessent's surprise Treasury buyback announcement is a thumb on the scale of the bond market, and it's making Kevin Warsh's job at…
Is a Private Credit scandal brewing behind the LA Lakers Sale?
Aug 19, 2026
The LA Lakers --- a prestigious basketball franchise that didn't change hands for 46 years --- just sold twice in ten months, the second time for $2.5 billion more than the first. The seller is Mark…
OpenAI's Lawyer: How Big Tech is Winning the AI Race in the Courts
Aug 12, 2026
We got to sit down with John Quinn — the "Quinn" of Quinn Emanuel — one of the most powerful litigators in the world, and the man whose firm is defending OpenAI right now. What does someone at the…
SpaceX: Revisiting the IPO and What Comes Next
Aug 05, 2026
After the largest IPO in history, only about 5% of SpaceX — roughly $83 billion of the $1.75 trillion — is actually free to trade. Insiders are locked up, the banks that underwrote the deal can't…
The Biggest Hedge Fund Blow-Up of 2026 EXPLAINED: Situational Awareness
Jul 31, 2026
What took Situational Awareness from a $45bn hedge fund down to a $10bn hedge fund in less than a month? Two years ago Leopold Aschenbrenner was a researcher at OpenAI who wrote a 165-page essay…
What Just Happened to AI Stocks??
Jul 30, 2026
*Note: This episode was recorded before news broke of Situational Awareness' unwind, which gives us much better insight into the pace and magnitude of the move in the Korean markets…
Why Jamie Dimon Won't Buy Stocks OR Bonds Right Now
Jul 24, 2026
Short interest in the S&P 500 is sitting near its highest level since 2010, Jamie Dimon says he won't touch US stocks or Treasuries at these prices, and SpaceX is the ninth-most-shorted stock in the…
Ex-Morgan Stanley Bankers' "Yesteryear" HOT TAKES: Trad Wives vs. Career Women
Jul 18, 2026
We're talking about the buzziest --- and most controversial --- book of the summer: "Yesteryear" by Caro Claire Burke. It poses a question no one's brave enough to answer: are trad wives and career…
How AI is Repeating the Exact Mistake that Bankrupted Enron | 50-Year Power Insider
Jul 16, 2026
With hyperscalers like Meta, Google, Amazon and SpaceXAI burning through cash, we decided to answer the question underneath all of it: what is this money actually buying?
In this episode we start…
Mindy Kaling's "Not Suitable for Work": Our Hot Takes on the Show About Investment Banking in NYC We've Been Waiting For
Jun 14, 2026
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Mindy Kaling's new sitcom "Not Suitable for Work" just dropped, and we have thoughts. We are two Wall Street veterans breaking down everything the show gets right — and wrong — about…
How Google Front-Ran SpaceX with a Record Breaking $85 Billion Equity Raise
Jun 11, 2026
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While everyone's been fixated on the SpaceX IPO, Google quietly pulled off the largest equity offering in history—roughly $85 billion—and basically front-ran the entire market to do…
Spotify Executive: How to Become a $100B Company When Everyone Expects Your Product Free
Jun 10, 2026
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We've done the finance of Industry, the finance of Succession, the finance of Belle Burden's Strangers — but we've never done the finance of CREATORS. So when Spotify invited us to…
SpaceX Just Rewrote the Rules of the Stock Market (And Most People Had No Idea)
Jun 06, 2026
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In this episode, we dig into one of the biggest market questions hiding behind the hype around mega IPOs: what happens to passive index investors when companies like SpaceX…
Ex-Morgan Stanley Bankers: "Strangers" How Much Belle Burden's Husband Was Actually Earning
Jun 03, 2026
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No one is talking about the insane thing that's happened to Big Law partner compensation over the past decade — and how it stacks up against Wall Street.
In this deep dive we broke…
Ex-Morgan Stanley Bankers: "Strangers" by Belle Burden Part 1 | Our Initial HOT TAKES
May 27, 2026
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Two weeks ago, one of the most powerful women on Wall Street asked us to weigh in on Belle Burden's bombshell memoir: "Strangers". As two women who've lived and worked in every world…
Hedge Funds Want the Equity in Your Home, feat. Tacora Capital Founder Keri Findley
May 26, 2026
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In this episode we dig into the state of the American consumer's balance sheet, which on paper isn't broke but is increasingly "boxed in." We walk through eye-opening Federal Reserve…
$53 Billion Hedge Fund Chief Strategist: The Next Market Shock Is Hiding in Plain Sight
May 14, 2026
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We sat down with Elizabeth Burton, the new Chief Strategist at Fortress, one of the world’s biggest and most respected hedge funds, to ask what actually matters most in this market —…
Burry Left in a Hurry! The Loophole GameStop Could Use to Pull Off Buying eBay (10x its Size)
May 08, 2026
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Michael Burry just dumped all his GameStop shares. eBay reportedly deactivated Ryan Cohen's account. And the $56 billion "takeover" GameStop pitched on CNBC? It would actually have…
GameStop Just Bid $56 Billion for eBay. What is ACTUALLY Going On????
May 05, 2026
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🚨 EMERGENCY EPISODE: GameStop just made an unsolicited $56 billion bid for eBay, and the math is NOT mathing. After watching CEO Ryan Cohen's bizarre live CNBC interview with Andrew…
Every New Fed Chair Has Crashed the Market. A New One is Coming May 15th
Apr 30, 2026
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Jerome Powell's term as Fed Chair ends May 15th, and his likely successor Kevin Warsh is poised to walk into the most fractured Fed since 1992. In this episode, we're breaking down…
Financial Times Reporter TELLS ALL: Sujeet Indap on Why Private Credit is Worse than Credit in 2008 | Caesars Part 3/3
Apr 25, 2026
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In Part 3 of our Caesars Palace Coup series, we're back with Sujeet Indap of the Financial Times — co-author of the definitive book on the $30 billion LBO disaster — to connect the…
Restructuring 101: How Private Equity Pits Debt Investors Against Each Other | Caesars Part 2/3
Apr 20, 2026
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This is Part II of our Caesars Palace deep dive, and honestly, this is where things get truly unhinged. If Part I was the setup — the $30 billion LBO, the financial crisis, and the…
Private Equity Knows Something Private Credit Doesn't | Caesars $30B LBO is the Playbook | Caesars Part 1/3
Apr 16, 2026
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Private credit is the crisis everyone's watching, but the real story -- and the one no one has been focused on -- is what private equity is doing behind the scenes.In Part 1 of our…
Morgan Stanley's Head & CIO of Private Equity Solutions: The Ultimate Deep Dive into PE Investing
Apr 11, 2026
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Buckle up, because this week we're sitting down with Neha Champaneria Markle, who runs the Private Equity Solutions group at Morgan Stanley Investment Management.Neha walks us…
Wall Street is Watching Something More Concerning than Oil
Apr 01, 2026
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Everyone's been freaking out about oil and stocks, but the scariest thing this past week actually happened in bonds, and almost nobody was talking about it. Last week the US Treasury…
