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101

Why Silver Is Flowing East | Alex Campbell on Solar, Scarcity, and the Six-Sigma Silver Crash (Plus: SaaS & AI)

102

Is the Age of Reckless Lending Coming To An End? | Oaktree’s Raghav Khanna on Private Credit, Software, and How Oaktree Correctly Saw First Brands' Red Flags

103

Trump’s Hidden Mortgage Stimulus from Fannie & Freddie | Joseph Wang on GSEs, Kevin Warsh, Powell, and Dollar Hedging

104

“Software Earnings Massacre” While Precious Metal Vol Explodes | Jack & Max on Silver, Fed Meeting, and Earnings

105

The SaaS Reckoning, Consumer Trends, & AI Disruption: The Macro & Micro Signals That Matter in 2026 | Deiya Pernas

106

How $100B Asset Managers Are Making Tokenized Funds a Reality | Maredith Hannon of WisdomTree

107

U.S. Stocks Are Overvalued, But Not In A Bubble | Professor Aswath Damodaran on Equity Valuations, AI Data Center Boom, and “Big Market Delusions”

108

Breaking Down the Precious Metals Bull Market, Natural Gas, Intel’s Disappointment, & the Small Cap Surge | Jack & Max

109

Sell America Trade 2.0 | Andy Constan on Foreign Outperformance, Huge Financing Need, and Bull Case For Short-Term Rates

110

The Triumphs & Crises of China’s Economy | Professor Barry Naughton on China’s Debt, Deflation, and “Industrial Policy 3.0”

111

Banks Under Fire From Executive Action | Jack & Max on Trump's Threatened 10% Credit Card Cap and How Executive Action Is Shaping Markets in Defense, Housing, Payments, Central Banking, and More

112

The Market’s Biggest Whales are Making Huge Changes: Total Portfolio Revolution | Steve Novakovic of CAIA

113

How China Could Dominate U.S. AI | Dr. Michael Power on Open Source and "The Three Assassins" of Moore's Law

114

Why Venezuela Won’t Solve America’s Real Energy Crisis | Michael Kao on AI, Electrification, and the Natural Gas Bottleneck

115

The Global Bull Market: Examining the Dramatic Outperformance of Global Stocks vs. the US | Jack & Max

116

The Convexity Maven’s Biggest Macro Trades of 2026: Why Bonds, Gold, and Debasement Matter Again in 2026 | Harley Bassman

117

Citrini’s 26 Trades for 2026 | Citrini on BS Jobs, AI Materials, Advanced Packaging, World Cup, & More

118

Investing Data is Evolving: AI, The Degenerate Economy & More | Matt Ober | Social Leverage

119

Investing in Gray | Pictet’s Maria Vassalou on Aging Demographics and Technological Innovations

120

China and the Reordering of World Trade | Former Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs Jay Shambaugh

121

How India’s Macro Tailwinds Are Fueling Its Aerospace & Defense Sectors | Andrei Stetsenko

122

From Bad to Less Bad: A Quantitative Approach to Turnarounds | Bloomberg Indices’ Steve Hou on “Reformers Index,” Baumol Disease, and Structural Inflation

123

Allocators Want What They Want | Andrew Beer on Pod Shops, “Volatility Laundering,” and Building Liquid Alts That Don’t Suck

124

How This Value Investor Beat the Market and Grew His Hedge Fund | Yaron Naymark | 1 Main Capital

125

The AI Data Center Short | Jim Chanos on Oracle, Data Centers Landlords, and GPU Merchants

126

“Mother All Crises” | Luke Gromen on America’s Choice Between AI Dominance and Real Value of Treasury Market

127

Beating Bitcoin at Scale with Directional Crypto Strategies | Sam Gaer of Monarq Asset Management

128

Why Metals Are Soaring While Oil Stalls | CME Chief Economist Erik Norland on Precious Metals, Oil, Copper, and More

129

China’s Involution Trap | Michael Pettis on China's Excess Savings, Industrial Overcapacity, and Exporting of Deflation

130

The Lopsided Expansion | Aahan Menon on Why Long-Term Forecasts Don’t Make Money, And The Growing Divergence Between AI CapEx And Labor Market

131

Breaking Down Michael Burry’s Big Nvidia Short Thesis and Open AI’s Massive Loss Projections | Jack & Max

132

As Good As It Gets? | Meb Faber on U.S. Stock Valuations, Trend Following, and Endowment Allocations To Private Markets

133

Venture Capital’s Collision with Public Markets, the Dry Powder Bubble, and VC Metrics that Lie | James Wang of Creative Ventures

134

Demystifying First Brands Group’s $ 12 Billion Bankruptcy | Robert Smith of the Financial Times

135

The Fed Won’t Pop AI: It Will Save Housing | Blue Door’s Dan Krausz On The Three Neutral Rates, The Liquidity Waterfall, and Why Profits Rising While Employment Falters Is Not Bearish For The Stock Market

136

Is The AI Bubble Popping? | Jack and Max on Data Center Debt, Fragile Markets, and Insurance Companies

137

AI Euphoria Is Rolling Over | Lyn Alden on Bitcoin Correction, Who Satoshi Is, Data Center CapEx, and Whether AI Is A Bubble

138

Can Alpha Capture Save Fundamental Long/Short Equity Investing? | David Stemerman CenterBook Partners

139

The State of Real Estate Credit | Rithm Capital's Satish Mansukhani on Mortgage Servicing, Commercial Real Estate, and Rithm's Asset Manager Acquisition Strategy

140

The Case For S&P 10,000 by 2027 | Erik YWR on Global Economic Boom, Why Soaring Earnings Support High Equity Valuations, and Oil + China

141

Why Beating the Market Isn’t Enough for Investment Managers | Corey Hoffstein

142

Is It Enough? Michael Howell on Money Market Turbulence, Standing Repo Facility, and Why Fed Balance Sheet Expansion Is Inevitable

143

Fed Governor Miran: The Case For Big Rate Cuts | Miran on Deterioration in Labor Market, the Neutral Rate of Interest, and Fed Balance Sheet Policy

144

This Hedge Fund Trying to Become the Top Pod Shop in Crypto is Rethinking the Multi-Manager Hedge Fund Model | Anatoly Crachilov of Nickel Digital

145

More Credit Problems, Mag 7 AI CapEX Continues, and Money Market Stress | Jack & Max

146

Joseph Wang: Fed Likely To Have To Expand Balance Sheet To Avoid Losing Control Over Repo Market

147

The Liquidity Divergence Between East and West | Michael Howell on Deteriorating Federal Liquidity While People’s Bank of China (PBOC) Injects Stimulus and Pumps Gold

148

Credit Concern is Overblown Argues Financials Hedge Fund Manager Beating the S&P 500 | Derek Pilecki of Gator Capital

149

The Core of Dollar Weakness | George Saravelos, Deutsche Bank's Head of FX Research, on Growth Differentials, Fed Rate Cuts, and 4% U.S. Current Account as Key Threshold For USD Declines

150

The Dollar’s Impossible Trifecta | Jon Turek on Why USD Hedging Flows Will Increase Throughout Fed’s Rate Cutting Cycle

151

Cockroaches in Credit? | Jack & Max on Zion’s Cali CRE Write-off, Big Bank Earnings Blowout, and First Brands Update

152

Bringing Long/Short Hedge Fund Strategies to ETFs | David Orr (Bonus Episode)

153

What China is Really Doing With Its “Giant Surpluses” | Brad Setser on China’s Export Dominance, Trade Strategy, and Capital Flows

154

Panic on Wall Street | First Brands’ Credit Shockwave & Trump’s 100% China Tariff Threat

155

How Governments Can Actually Raise More Revenues | Taxation Expert Richard Murphy

156

The AI Capex Bubble, Gold & Silver on the Rise, and Signs of Market Froth | Jack & Max

157

Echoes of 2007 In Mushrooming Private Credit Boom? | Patrick Perret-Green on Tricolor & First Brands Bankruptcy, Asian Disinflation, And Why U.K. Duration Looks Attractive

158

Doubting Goldilocks | Julian Brigden on Precious Metals, Fed Independence, and the U.S. Dollar

159

Top Crypto Fund of Funds on the Current Crypto Cycle, Hedge Funds, & VCs | Pure Crypto LP

160

Brace for More Volatile Electricity Markets | LOGARISK's Imane Bakkar on Weather, AI, and other Forces Causing More Volatile Electric Grids

161

Small Cap Season | Jack & Max on Fed Independence, Acuren, Franco Nevada, MSCI, and More

162

Outperforming the S&P 500 & Growing from One-Man Shop to Multi-Manager Hedge Fund | David Orr of Militia Capital

163

“This Is A Frothy Bubble” | Rob Arnott on Excessive Valuations, AI, and Reinventing Cap-Weighted Indexing

164

Why 900,000+ Jobs Just Got Penciled In To Disappear | Anna Wong & Danielle DiMartino Booth on -911k Non-farm Payroll Revision, Unemployment Rate, and Immigration’s Impact on Labor Market

165

Why Bonds Still Suck | Aahan Menon of Prometheus Macro on Immigration’s Impact on Lower Job Numbers, Technology CapEx, Business Expansion, Manufacturing Green Shoots, and More

166

Concentrated Investing in Small Caps at the Intersection of Change, Crisis, & Controversy | Stoic Point Capital Management

167

The Era of AI Semiconductor CapEx | Angus Shillington & Nick Frasse (Fireside Chat)

168

How AI Tools Are Rapidly Disrupting the Investment Industry | Brett Caughran & David Plon

169

Non-Bank Leverage & Financial Stability | Financial Stability Board General Secretary John Schindler

170

Climbing the Hedge Fund Ladder: From Analyst to Hedge Fund Founder

171

“Potemkin Village of Credit” | BankRegData’s Bill Moreland on Banks’ Loan Modification Morass & Note-on-Note Financing Spree

172

Breaking Down Powell’s Jackson Hole Speech, September Rate Cut Odds, and Chinese Consumer Lending FinTech’s | Jack & Max

173

The Golden Age of Fundamental Commodities Trading with Tor Svelland of Svelland Capital (18.5% Annualized Since Inception)

174

Biggest Trade Shock Since Civil War | Douglas Irwin on Trump’s “Bigger Than Smoot-Hawley” Tariffs, Great Depression Balance of Payments History, and Tariff Incidence (Who Pays?)

175

Wall Street is Crushing Main Street: Juxtaposing Market Strength with Economic Softness

176

The ETFization of Private Credit | Leland Clemons on Fixed Income Flows, ETF Mechanics, and High-Yield Bond Market

177

Waiting For The Fat Pitch | “Recession Denier” Jonny Matthews on Real Slowdown In U.S. Economic Data

178

Deep Engagement: A Banking Approach to Classical Value Investing | Donald Zilkha of Zilkha Investments

179

The Speculation Phase Begins | Michael Howell on Liquidity Cycle, China, Fiscal Dominance, and Dollar Weakening

180

Beyond the Fed | Jack & Max on FOMC, GDP, Earnings & Tariffs

181

Optimizing the Investment Business for Long-term Results | David Steinberg of Marlowe Partners

182

A US Sovereign Debt Crisis is Bullish for the Dollar | Brent Johnson

183

Navigating the Non-Investment Grade Landscape In A High Tariff World | Oaktree’s Wayne Dahl on High-Yield Bonds, Bank Loans, CLOs, CMBS, and Private Credit

184

SPACs Are Booming but Are We Back in Bubble Territory? | Louis Camhi of RLH Capital

185

Bitcoin Calls Are Cheap, Equity Puts Are Rich | Dean Curnutt on TACO, Variance Drag, Leveraged ETFs, and Cross Asset Vol

186

Top Hedge Funds Are Hiding and It’s Warping Return Data | Jon Caplis of PivotalPath

187

The 5th Inning | Citrini on Phase II of AI, Semis, Robotics, Healthcare, and Teradyne

188

The Case For Tariffs | Oren Cass on Why Globalization Has Mostly Been Bad, And The Need To Redress Unbalanced Trade

189

The Market Has Moved from Deflation to Debasement | Warren Pies

190

The Double Dip Recession | Danielle DiMartino Booth’s Take on Job Market, Credit, Tariffs, and Fed

191

Bull Markets' Tumultuous Third Year | Sam Stovall on Earnings Expectations, Sector Outlooks, and bull Case for U.S. Stocks

192

Is Leverage the Solution to America’s Retirement Crisis? | Abdul Al-Asaad of Basic Capital

193

Gold’s Time To Shine | Joseph Cavatoni on Central Bank Bullion Purchases, Permitting Reform in U.S., and Global Investor Demand for Gold

194

The Healthcare Sector Job Growth is Propping Up the US Economy (For Now) | Eric Pachman

195

The Window of Vulnerability | Tian Yang on Global Imbalances, the Dollar, Growth Vulnerabilities, and Housing (Plus A Special Offering for Monetary Matters Listeners)

196

Fed Scared of Inflation Resurgence | Jack Farley & Max Wiethe

197

Equity Market Strength is Masking a Recession | Mike Green

198

The Fed Will Choose Inflation Over Recession | Vincent Deluard

199

Capacity Constrained by Design: The 25-Year-Old Building Niche Multi-Manager Hedge Fund Platforms | Zach Levitt

200

Trade Policy Isn't Driving China’s Trade Surplus | Matthew Klein