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1183 episodes transcribedA week from today we will get the February jobs report and there are growing concerns that the US labor market is slowing. Already, the number of sect...
The first month of the Trump administration has been noisy and novel by basically any measure. But perhaps the biggest shockwaves have been in the rea...
The so-called “Mar-a-Lago Accord” has suddenly become a hot topic on Wall Street, with some investors and analysts starting to take the id...
People love listening to stories about making it big, and there are no shortage of success stories in the world of global business. There's TSMC, whic...
Hedge funds are notorious for making big and sometimes risky trades. Banks, meanwhile, are supposed to be a lot more boring by comparison — for...
The US is a dominant force in a number of important industries, but it's been lagging behind in one crucial area: shipbuilding. Today, there are about...
For a long time, the world of derivatives trading was a niche thing, largely occupied by professional investors who used them for hedging purposes. Du...
The price of gold is basically at record highs. But what is it about gold that people love so much? Why have people always craved a metal that has no...
We all know that the Federal Reserve tries to stabilize the economy by raising or cutting interest rates to balance inflation and unemployment. But th...
The Trump administration has come into office with big ambitions to lower the size of the US deficit. So far, a number of small items have been identi...
There's a pretty widespread recognition that the EU is facing a bunch of economic challenges right now. Growth has been slowing and, as in many places...
This week, we saw shares of software maker Palantir soar after reporting earnings and describing demand for AI as being "untamed." But what does Palan...
Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have gained access to a unit within the Treasury Department called the Bureau of Fiscal S...
Over the weekend, President Trump announced that he was following through with his plan for aggressive tariffs. Imports from Canada and Mexico will no...
Marko Kolanovic was one of the biggest names in markets, earning the nickname 'Gandalf' for some eerily prescient calls over the years. But last July...
Everyone knows by now that MicroStrategy looks a lot like a giant Bitcoin ETF. Its founder, Michael Saylor, is a huge supporter of the cryptocurrency...
One of the primary drivers of elevated inflation — and the high cost of living in general — is the price of shelter. Whether you're buying...
On Monday, the stock market tanked, seemingly in reaction to the emergence of DeepSeek, an open source AI model developed in China. Nvidia, the semico...
The run-up in Big Tech stocks and all the hype over AI has put a bunch of investors on "bubble watch." One of those is Howard Marks, the co-founder an...
There's a lot of talk right now about concentration risk in US equities. For instance, the top 10 stocks in the S&P 500 currently account for 38%...
