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Financial Times · 336 episodes with transcripts
Katie Martin, Robert Armstrong and other markets nerds at the Financial Times explain the big ideas behind what’s happening in finance right now. Every Tuesday and Thursday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Example Transcripts
- There is only one trade
- An ode to stock picking
- Bond bombshell
- Turkish dismay
- News alert: Fed acts normal
- Should markets discount the AI apocalypse?
- Oil, yen and egonomics
- Unhedged Live: How Katie was “right all along”
- Dear Brits, please save more
- Warsh and peace
- Canada says no thank you
- Bombing the bond market
- Heatwaves and waterways
- Does the market know anything about oil?
- Hot Stoxx summer
- Why the yen matters
- The Economics Show: China wanted western tech. Now, the tables have turned.
- The Story of Money: The trader who made $100mn from the 1929 crash — only to lose it all
- Is the Fed the referee or the best player?
- The return of monetarism?
- How JPMorgan won
- The forecast for prediction markets
- Should private credit be public?
- Everything is awesome … for banks
- The Fed’s silent treatment
- Software stocks got crushed. Did they have it coming?
- New UK prime minister, same bond market
- Tech shares zigzag
- How to surf turbulent markets
- Notes from the FT Global Bond Summit
- Can Trump make a deal with Iran?
- Big energy getting bigger
- Could we interest you in $675bn in tech stocks?
- The chip and memory stock frenzy
- SpaceX nears lift-off
- The oil reserves dwindle
- Luxury during wartime
- What’s bothering bonds?
- Can GameStop buy eBay?
- The Buy America trade
- Are AI stocks the new railroad bonds?
- Introducing: The Story of Money
- The Fed holds steady
- Gloom and boom
- China Shock 2.0
- Trading disruption
- Boing! Springtime for the markets
- Space ecstasy
- What has changed?
- Guns and butter and credit
- How an energy crisis unfolds
- Is this social media's tobacco moment?
- The rout in UK and European bonds
- Why are markets listening to Trump?
- The Fed’s juggling act
- Are the markets right or wrong about Iran?
- Uncomfortable moments in private credit
- Wildest day for oil ever
- The case against stablecoins
- Energy prices up, markets down
- What the actual tariff?
- The report that rattled Wall Street
- How low can the dollar go?
- Introducing 'Behind the Money': Can Wells Fargo make it in investment banking?
- Is AI creating jobs?
- The triangle of confusion
- The next Fed chair
- The incredible shrinking dollar
- How does a gold rush end?
- Taco FTW
- Trade wars, real wars and the markets
- Introducing 'Business History': Young Warren Buffett
- Stock picking champs 2025
- Showdown at the Federal Reserve
- Outlook 2026
- Imperialism and the markets
- From Behind the Money: Private equity’s push into Japan
- Quiz show!
- From Against the Rules: Michael Burry Speaks
- We take some questions
- Three numbers that matter
- Gold, silver and crypto
- Can 2026 match 2025?
- Who gets to buy Warner Bros Discovery?
- A satanic list of inflationary factors
- Bonds vs budgets
- What are the hedge funds shorting?
- Nvidia's crazy day
- Big deals in Big Pharma
- Is the K-shaped economy real?
- Is the US an emerging market?
- DIY data
- Is Big Tech spending too much money?
- Martin Wolf on the economics of populism
- The vigorous nods of Bessent
- Will the US bail out Argentina?
- Japan’s next move
- Rare earth quake
- UK Budget blues
- AI peak is peak AI
- Introducing Untold: Toxic Legacy
- Gold now! Gold forever! Only gold! Gold! Gold!
- AI, shutdowns and shadow banks
- The largest leveraged buyout in history?
- Troubling signs in corporate debt
- Hedging the dollar
- Should companies report only twice a year?
- Private equity’s public reckoning
- The mystery of the vanishing jobs
- Live from the FTWeekend Festival in London
- What’s a central bank supposed to do?
- OK, Doomer
- The people’s chip manufacturer
- The Fed under attack
- The new pump and dumps
- Is the market too concentrated?
- Will markets ever care about anything?
- Lies, damn lies and statistics
- Swamp Notes: Trump’s case against Fed chair Powell
- The Economics Show: Trump is accelerating the dollar’s decline
- The Little Railroad Merger That Could
- Is M&A turning around?
- Robotaxis, tech earnings and 24-hour trading
- Is Nvidia really worth $4tn?
- Heinz, Kraft and Warren Buffett
- The secret giant of finance
- Three surprises that might spook the markets
- The dilapidated dollar
- Building a big beautiful Europe
- Can anything stop the US economy?
- Who wants to be a Fed chair?
- Behind the Money: Inside Moët Hennessy’s crisis
- What the Israel-Iran war means for markets
- What makes Tesla run?
- Welcome to the ‘Hotel Crypto’
- Walmart’s very good year
- Stock market party but why?
- The nasty Taco question
- The ‘big beautiful’ budget vs the bond market
- When Spacs attack
- The microcap explosion
- The UK’s trade deal
- Not-so-bad news is the new good news
- Berkshire after Buffett
- Will the real money pivot to Europe?
- GDP goes negative
- Bad shipping news
- Sell America?
- Nvidia’s bad day
- Will China back down?
- The real cost of a trade war
- Surveying the wreckage
- Tariffs up. Markets down
- Vibes vs data
- What does CoreWeave’s IPO say about the market?
- Can Trump drive down bond yields?
- Dour Fed, cheery market
- How will Europe pay for its new weapons?
- Make America Gyrate Again
- The case for China
- Trump dump?
- Can the Fed stay independent?
- The beatings will continue until markets improve
- Vibrational movements in the market
- Is the IPO market broken?
- Pros and cons of a US sovereign wealth fund
- The other side of trade
- Why is gold buggin’?
- Will Trump’s tariffs make Europe great again?
- What’s next for Trump’s tariffs?
- Picking stocks for 2025
- DeepSeek, AI and the markets
- Decoding Trumponomics
- Our 2024 stock picks
- Will US inflation ever go below 3%?
- What are UK bonds thinking?
- Why so many bankruptcies?
- The year ahead: tariffs, taxes and Trump
- The listeners have questions
- The Bitcoin National Strategic wha?
- Rate drop, market drop
- Will IPOs ever come back?
- Is M&A back?
- Geopolitics? What geopolitics?
- Are US stocks too expensive?
- Best of: the world’s greatest stocks
- How inflationary are tariffs, really?
- Disinflation, demographics, Doge
- Live from Kilkenomics: anger and economics
- The Trump economy. How big? How beautiful?
- Do the markets even care about the US election?
- Magnificent 7 report
- Can Boeing come back?
- What do bond markets know about the election?
- The titans of Wall Street
- The $2tn man
- Are emerging markets back?
- Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly and the GLP-1 economy
- Markets send mixed signals
- Markets and the Middle East
- Is the China stimulus package enough?
- Immigration and unemployment
- The case for small and mid caps
- Federal Reserve puts on enormous party hat
- What is Apollo, anyway?
- How Ireland got too much money
- The Fed: will it be 25 or 50?
- How to fix the housing market
- Boring but sexy (stocks)
- The ethics of investing for dictators
- The gold rally
- What will Jay Powell say at Jackson Hole?
- Markets resume previously scheduled exuberance
- The world’s greatest stocks
- 30 years of bond investment
- What’s up with Bill Ackman?
- Anatomy of a rout
- The case for Tesla
- Why Wall Street picked Kamala Harris
- How to manipulate the US dollar
- The Trump trade
- Will a major revision of listing rules in the UK work?
- Investing in green tech
- Paramount, Skydance and the streaming wars
- What elections in France and the UK mean for markets
- Can Morgan Stanley's CEO build a better bank?
- Are we all protectionists now?
- Distressed IPOs
- Elon Musk’s big payday
- Central bankers do nothing. Markets respond
- Trade like a bot
- The gamma squeeze
- What elections mean for markets this year
- The billionaires’ tax
- Who killed Red Lobster?
- Where’s the commercial property meltdown?
- The cocoa boom
- Bridgewater’s new boss
- GameStop again?
- The fight for Paramount
- What’s next for Warren Buffett
- Is Fed policy working?
- Why the US dollar is the world’s problem
- Bonus: The fraudster's guide to magic money with Tim Harford
- The diamond market disrupted
- Active changes to passive indices
- How oil got to $90 a barrel
- High interest rate anxiety
- Shopify vs Amazon
- Should we worry about private credit?
- Rethinking Tesla and Apple
- Navigating the next super cycle
- Wall Street bets on Reddit
- The great British bargain show
- Inside the crypto hype machine
- Listener Questions
- Can the US stock market stand 3% US inflation?
- Does factor investing still work?
- Inside the traders’ black box
- Learning to love the boom
- Is ESG over?
- Three markets, three highs
- WeWork rework
- Active investors! Assemble
- The dilemma of the supercompany
- Are dividends back?
- How not to pick stocks
- High-yield bond bonanza
- Will commercial real estate hurt regional banks?
- Can China rebound in 2024?
- Boardroom games
- Two stock markets, two takes
- Is America overpriced?
- Cash Rethink Energises Asset Markets
- Introducing Untold: The Retreat
- Today's inflation numbers
- Cool markets, hot takes
- The year ahead, according to AI, and humans
- The Unhedged Awards
- Markets gone wild
- Thirty-seven years of wisdom
- Central bank lookahead
- The return of crypto
- Introducing Hot Money: The New Narcos
- Gold just set a record. Why?
- Down the liquidity hole
- Have rates peaked?
- What the London Stock Exchange really trades
- The zombie companies
- What does Walmart know?
- Big Tech roundup: Tesla, Nvidia, Apple and more
- A drastic solution to exploding US government debt
- Pub quiz showdown: Alphaville vs Unhedged
- Sam Bankman-Fried takes the stand
- Why so down, S&P 500?
- A massive GDP number
- Is China a bargain right now?
- FTX trial update
- Japan’s new direction
- Public problems for private equity
- Three markets we’re watching
- The Biden scorecard
- The increasingly odd bond market
- How high, and for how long?
- The strong US dollar gets stronger
- Well, actually: Our ‘Dumb Money’ movie review
- Basis trade freakout (low key)
- Bonus Interview: Robyn Grew, Man Group CEO
- Three IPOs test the market
- A Tale of Two Housing Markets
- Big win for Big Crypto
- Good job numbers and a bad attitude
- The central bankers’ rodeo
- It’s tough out there for Goldman Sachs
- Hot new bad idea
- Disney’s Tragic Kingdom
- China slows down
- Icahn has problems?
- How bonds make — and break — nations
- Uber finally delivers
- The case for a soft landing
- The billionaire charged with insider trading
- Big week for central banks
- The private credit boom
- Getting inflation wrong
- The 2023 Unhedged stock draft
- Why the bond market matters now
- Harry Markowitz found a free lunch in finance
- Will empty offices hurt the US economy?
- Does Japan’s stock market rally have legs?
- What’s going on with car insurance?
- Why investors hate this bull market
- Is crypto a security, bro?
- Where’s the recession?
- Introducing Unhedged
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