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Aug 3, 2026 Hedgehog Hedge Fund Money Stuff Hedging, margin, agents, wallets, hacks. View enhanced version Subscribe to Bloomberg.com for unlimited access to all our coverage. Situational Awareness: hedging One thing you could do, a

Jul 30, 2026 The Situation Deteriorated Money Stuff Elections, PBCs, Ionic, WLFI. View enhanced version Subscribe to Bloomberg.com for unlimited access to all our coverage. Situational Awareness Being bullish on artificial intelligence has

Jul 29, 2026 SpaceX Crash Insurance Money Stuff Structured notes, sports, ETFs, slop. View enhanced version Subscribe to Bloomberg.com for unlimited access to all our coverage. SpaceX structured notes Here’s a neat little piece of deriv

Jul 28, 2026 Elevators Won’t Repair Themselves Money Stuff Sponsors, parlays, pivots, trust. View enhanced version Independent sponsors My half-joking potted history of business is that people used to go to business school to learn how to run busi

Jul 27, 2026 A Merger Closing Mystery Money Stuff Record dates, futures, fraud, indexes. View enhanced version Record date oopsie XOMA Royalty Corp. and Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc. are biotechnology royalty aggregators : They finance biot

Jul 23, 2026 Sports Happen So Much Money Stuff Index, basis, API, 10b5-1. View enhanced version Sports index Last month, I made some jokes about a prediction-market index, which struck me as a funny idea. I wrote : Prediction-market in

Jul 22, 2026 The SEC Pays a Texting Fine Money Stuff Phones, 351s, lockups, zombies. View enhanced version Personal phones It was illegal, from about 2021 through about 2025, for employees of financial firms to text or WhatsApp about work on

Jul 21, 2026 LSE Will Trade 22.83 Hours a Day Money Stuff 22.83/5, BLK v. BLK, ticking, VPN, gold. View enhanced version 22.8333/5 trading Most stock exchanges run on old-fashioned human timeframes. The exchange opens after breakfast, it trades f

Jul 20, 2026 Ice Cream Hedging Money Stuff API, LCDL, 10Q, peptides, reinspection. View enhanced version Ice cream hedge Oh sure : 28wishes, a bougie independent ice cream parlor in downtown Los Angeles, has been gaining cash on Ka

Jul 16, 2026 Shorts Will Sell You SpaceX Money Stuff Leveraged ETFs, alpha, drugs, Truth. View enhanced version SpaceX shorts Right now, about 5% of SpaceX’s stock is available to trade, just the 639 million shares that it sold in its initia

Jul 15, 2026 Keeping Mergers Under the Radar Money Stuff HSR, PWM, lockup, Apollo, debanking. View enhanced version HSR The way mergers-and-acquisitions regulation works in the US is that if you want to buy a biggish company, you need to ask the

Jul 14, 2026 Banks Made a Lot of Money on Stocks Money Stuff Debanking, LBO, AI AI AI, SPAC. View enhanced version Equities Here are the three main ways for a big bank to make money from stock trading: The bank’s clients want to trade stocks, so the

Jul 13, 2026 ETFs Are for Bets Money Stuff ETFs, TXSE, HR, AI. View enhanced version Sports gambling ETF We talked on Friday about a proposed sports gambling exchange-traded fund . On the one hand: cool. On the other hand: If what

Jul 10, 2026 Sports Gambling ETF Money Stuff Sports gambling ETF, Edgar, AI pivot. View enhanced version Programming note: This is a somewhat special edition of Money Stuff, because sports gambling ETF. Also this week’s episode of th

Jul 9, 2026 Leave the Oil in the Pipes Money Stuff No Elon, egg Libor, coverage, agents. View enhanced version Oil tokens Here are two problems. One is that it is not very pleasant to store crude oil. Oil is voluminous and oozy and poisono

Jul 8, 2026 GameStop Has Enough Stock Now Money Stuff Mergers, SRTs, sports, TOS, index. View enhanced version GameStop has more stock GameStop Corp. is sort of trying to buy eBay Inc. Not really. We have discussed the proposal a few times, a

Jul 7, 2026 Index Traders Had a Good Month Money Stuff Rebalance, Strategy, AI-to-EA. View enhanced version Good pods On Wednesday, 109.3 million shares of SpaceX traded on the stock market; of those, about 5.4 million were traded in the Nasda

Jul 6, 2026 Untruth Machines Money Stuff Bots, memes, puts, loans, Korea, bowling. View enhanced version Kalshi/Spotify The order of magnitude is that artists get a few dollars for every 1,000 times their songs are streamed on Sp

Jul 2, 2026 Tricking the AI Investors Money Stuff Negging, privates, binaries, pivots. View enhanced version Podcasting note: This week’s episode of the Money Stuff podcast is out now (because of the holiday tomorrow). Katie and I discuss

Jul 1, 2026 Egg Libor Money Stuff Eggs, puts, sports, ETFs. View enhanced version Egg Libor There’s an electronic egg exchange that sets the market price of eggs. [1] Actually the Justice Department complaint says that the

Jun 30, 2026 Susquehanna Sold Some Suspicious Puts Money Stuff Millennium, Elliott, Stretch, Mirae. View enhanced version Suspicious puts The basic job of a market maker is to buy low, sell high, and not get adversely selected. You bop along, buying s

Jun 29, 2026 People Are Worried About Stock Market Leverage Money Stuff SPV, BNPL, MTM PE fees, dinosaurs. View enhanced version Leverage Companies issue debt and they issue equity. There are various corporate-finance-y reasons to choose one or the other or so

Jun 25, 2026 There’s a SpaceX Treasury Company Money Stuff SPV^3, AI, BDCs, SpaceTesla, lint. View enhanced version SpaceX treasury company No no no no no, the time to do this was a year ago: Triller Group Inc (Nasdaq: ILLR; ILLRW) (“Triller” or t

Jun 24, 2026 Insider Trading Isn't Romantic Money Stuff Arena, SpaceTesla, AI SPAC, SK Hynix. View enhanced version PR insider trading Every financial services firm will tell its new employees, in their first week or two of work, the same thing

Jun 23, 2026 Short Squeeze as a Service Money Stuff Avis, ESG, carry, vibecoding, events. View enhanced version Avis/Pentwater If you run a public company and you want to raise money, you can sell stock, but you probably won’t. Many compani