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Thinking in Markets — 202 episodes
S1E202 - The Investor's Guide to Canada’s Ivey PMI
S1E201 - The Risk Inside the Charging Hub
S1E200 - How Shipping Confidence Travels Through Markets
S1E199 - The Hidden Mechanism Behind an Earnings Beat
S1E198 - The Quiet Signal Inside the No-Cut Trade
S1E197 - What ETF Flows Can and Cannot Tell You
S1E196 - From Rate Relief to Loan Demand
S1E195 - From Index Gain to Portfolio Exposure
S1E194 - Why Positioning Transparency Matters More Than It Looks
S1E193 - The Portfolio Consequence of Physical Dollar Demand
S1E192 - Reading the Yield Move Without Overreacting
S1E191 - Three Checks Before Reading the Stagflation Story
S1E190 - The Hidden Mechanism Behind an Uneven Global Recovery
S1E189 - How a Fed Chair Transition Travels Through Markets
S1E188 - What GDP, PCE, and Labor Costs Can and Cannot Tell You
S1E187 - From Tax Cash to Market Liquidity
S1E186 - The Risk Inside Waiting for Rate Cuts
S1E185 - Why the Dollar Funding Map Matters More Than It Looks
S1E184 - The Portfolio Consequence of a Supply-Shock Hold
S1E183 - Reading Germany's CPI Without Overreacting
S1E182 - The Quiet Signal Inside China's Renewable Surge
S1E181 - The Investor's Guide to Private Credit Liquidity Risk
S1E180 - When the Data Batch Refuses One Story
S1E179 - When Your Paycheck Is Already in the Portfolio
S1E178 - When the Safe Asset Is Not Yours
S1E177 - When a Hold Starts Sounding Like a Hike
S1E176 - When Ethereum Sells Space, Not Ether
S1E175 - When 60/40 Gets Its Old Job Back, But Not Its Old Magic
S1E174 - When More Volatility Means Better Prices
S1E173 - When the Bond Buyer Changes
S1E172 - When One House Price Is Not the Housing Market
S1E171 - When a Bet Becomes a Market
S1E170 - When Insurance Becomes Inflation
S1E169 - When the Cut Comes With a Wider Spread
S1E168 - When the Task Frontier Moves Faster Than GDP
S1E167 - When Fixing the Fed Is Not the Same as Trusting It
S1E166 - When a Bank Trade Needs a Curve
S1E165 - When Convexity Is a State, Not a Trade
S1E164 - When TVL Is Not Token Value
S1E163 - When the Shock Breaks the Scale
S1E162 - When Firms and Households Fear the Same Shock
S1E161 - When Peace Does Not Reopen the Strait
S1E160 - When Risk-Off Still Buys Stocks
S1E159 - When a Capital Rule Reaches Main Street
S1E158 - When the Oil Shock Pays the Exporter
S1E157 - When Services Can Pass the Bill
S1E156 - When One Acronym Has Two Owners
S1E155 - When the Hiring Freeze Speaks Before the Layoffs
S1E154 - When Late-Cycle Doesn't Mean The End
S1E153 - When Burgers, Bargains, and Mainframes Start Telling the Same Macro Story
S1E152 - When Europe's Factory Shock Takes the Long Way to U.S. Inflation
S1E151 - When a Trade Deal Starts Before the Politics End
S1E150 - When a Factory Cost Shock Is Really an Import Shock
S1E149 - When Regime Change Is More Direction Than Blueprint
S1E148 - When Europe Feels Worse Before It Looks Worse
S1E147 - When Strong Retail Sales Doesn't Mean Strong GDP
S1E146 - When the Database Starts Selling Retrieval
S1E145 - When Germany's Factory Prices Jump but the World Doesn't
S1E144 - When Less Reporting Is Not Less Risk
S1E143 - When Fixing the Fed Still Means Defending the Dollar
S1E142 - When the Drone Stops Waiting for the Pilot
S1E141 - When China’s 5-Year Rate Is Not America’s 5-Year Rate
S1E140 - When Uncertainty Becomes the Product
S1E139 - When the Car Stops Driving the Stock
S1E138 - When a Bigger Weight Is Not a Bigger Bet
S1E137 - When the P/E Makes the Wrong First Impression
S1E136 - When a Health Subsidy Cliff Becomes a Market Signal
S1E135 - When Transport Stocks Rally Before Freight Booms
S1E134 - When the Platform Dream Meets the Core Franchise
S1E133 - When a Battery Breakthrough Still Needs a Grid
S1E132 - When Easy Money Has Three Political Owners
S1E131 - When Weak Retail Sales Don't Sink the Dollar
S1E130 - When Lower Oil Still Doesn't Calm the Long Bond
S1E129 - When the Sector ETF Stops Acting Like the Sector
S1E128 - When a Forward Rate Still Isn't the Fed's Forecast
S1E127 - When a Conference Return Is Not Deregulation
S1E126 - When the Small IPO Window Stays Shut
S1E125 - When the Backstop Gets Tapped for a Day
S1E124 - When the Fed's MBS Line Stays Still, Then Moves
S1E123 - When China's GDP Beat Comes From the Factory, Not the Mall
S1E122 - When the Same Oil Shock Hits Europe Harder Than America
S1E121 - When a GDP Beat Does Not Change the Trend
S1E120 - When the Survey Runs Ahead of the Factory
S1E119 - When One Hedge Stops Paying Margin Twice
S1E118 - When a Trade Price Shock Is Not a Trade Boom
S1E117 - When Capital Flows Arrive Too Late to Trade
S1E116 - When Payrolls Stall but Work Does Not
S1E115 - When Robinhood Stops Being Just a Broker
S1E114 - When a Falling Dollar Is Really a Peace Trade
S1E113 - When PPI Is Not What Producers Pay
S1E112 - When the Side Minutes Still Matter
S1E111 - When the Credit Push Arrives but Borrowers Don't
S1E110 - When Rising Loans Don't Mean Easier Credit
S1E109 - When Two ETFs Hold Two Different Worlds
S1E108 - When a Food Report Is Really a Farm Report
S1E107 - When a Trading Fine Is Really About Controls
S1E106 - When the Fed Buys Bills Without Easing
S1E105 - When One Yield Can't Tell You the Odds
S1E104 - When Fewer Bills Feel Like More Cash
S1E103 - When the Average Cut Is Not the Most Likely Cut
S1E102 - When the Desk Survey Isn't the Fed's Forecast
S1E101 - When 10Y Means Price, Not Yield
S1E100 - When Buffett Retires With More Cash Than AI
S1E99 - When Bretton Woods Broke but the Dollar Stayed
S1E98 - When a Tech Revolution Hides in the Productivity Data
S1E97 - When the Buyback Is Paying the Payroll
S1E96 - When UBI Is a Fiscal Question, Not Free Money
S1E95 - When the ETF Name Tells the Wrong Story
S1E94 - When a Fast Payment System Still Says No to Stablecoins
S1E93 - When Streaming Needs a Library, Not Just an Algorithm
S1E92 - When a Productivity Boom Tries to Pull Rates Down
S1E91 - When Building the Chip Changes the Business
S1E90 - When One Chip Sale Doesn't End the Tech War
S1E89 - When a Greek Is Not a Forecast
S1E88 - When AI Makes Quant Trading Wider, Not Easier
S1E87 - When the Short Crowd Still Has an Exit
S1E86 - When the Market Opens a Door
S1E85 - When the Agent Market Grows Faster Than the Agents
S1E84 - When Pro-Business Is Not Free Market
S1E83 - When AI Usage Still Doesn't Reach the Bottom Line
S1E82 - When a National Champion Can't Be Alibaba
S1E81 - When the Signals Stop Confirming Each Other
S1E80 - When the Ledger Is Not the Election
S1E79 - When a Big Economy Still Can’t Export Its Currency
S1E78 - When January's Macro Story Stops Working
S1E77 - When Tax Day Tightens Before Treasury Spends Again
S1E76 - When Risk-Off Buys Cash, Not Bonds
S1E75 - When the Overnight Rate Stops Being One Rate
S1E74 - When a Purchasing Index Isn't Just Purchasing
S1E73 - When One Aircraft Order Hides the Factory Story
S1E72 - When a Real Yield Has No 3-Month Ticker
S1E71 - When the Yield Curve Is Not a List of Bond Quotes
S1E70 - When AI Capex Buys Capacity, Not Genius
S1E69 - When AI Lowers the Cost of Control
S1E68 - When the Lab Is State-Owned but the Trade Is Global
S1E67 - When Yield Makes a Stablecoin Feel Like a Bank
S1E66 - When a Tariff Ruling Doesn't End the Trade Fight
S1E65 - When a Government Contract Does Not Mean Giving Away the Code
S1E64 - When a Falling Dollar Is Not Good News
S1E63 - When AI Exposure Is Not a Layoff Forecast
S1E62 - When Four Days of Oil Is Not Four Days of Safety
S1E61 - When the Safer Bond Sinks Faster Than Junk
S1E60 - When a War Lifts Oil but Sinks Copper
S1E59 - When the Trade Surplus Is Mostly Gold
S1E58 - When the Benchmark Auction Blinks
S1E57 - When an Objective Model Still Misses
S1E56 - When Lower Unemployment Is Not Better News
S1E55 - When Old Code Becomes a New Market
S1E54 - When a Transit Fee Stops Being Just a Fee
S1E53 - When Confidence Ticks Up but the Future Slips
S1E52 - When a Messy Chart Still Matters
S1E51 - When a Rate Hike Comes With Doubt
S1E50 - When Volatility Is a Ruler, Not a View
S1E49 - When the AI Boom Needs Pipes, Not Prompts
S1E48 - When a Great Company Stops Being the Right Stock
S1E47 - When a Dollar Becomes a Workflow
S1E46 - Why Volatility Scales, But Drawdown Doesn't
S1E45 - When the Crowd Starts Thinking for You
S1E44 - When the Consensus Hides the Range
S1E43 - When Hitting the Level Is Not Ending There
S1E42 - When Gold Stops Obeying Real Yields
S1E41 - One Metal, Four Minds
S1E40 - Why Crypto Falls Twice
S1E39 - Why Gold Stays Small in a Pension Portfolio
S1E38 - Who Pays Is Not the Whole Story
S1E37 - When a Jobs Report Counts Jobs, Not People
S1E36 - When a Zero Mark Is Not the Whole Loss
S1E35 - When the AI Agent Replaces the Queue, Not the Department
S1E34 - When the Model Stops Being the Moat
S1E33 - When Easy Money Misses Main Street
S1E32 - When the Dot Plot Sounds Like a Promise
S1E31 - Why the Fed Cannot Shrink Reserves Blindly
S1E30 - Why the Fed Holds Bonds That Grow With Inflation
S1E29 - One PCE Report, Two Temperatures
S1E28 - When Liquidity Is There, But Not For You
S1E27 - When Expected Inflation Is Not Actual Inflation
S1E26 - When Gold Positioning Gets Crowded
S1E25 - Two Inflations, Two Margin Stories
S1E24 - How to Read a Closed Market
S1E23 - When the Curve Starts Arguing With Itself
S1E22 - When the Discount Hides in the Mortgage
S1E21 - When Dollar Demand Moves Off the Banking Grid
S1E20 - When the Safe Haven Gets Sold First
S1E19 - When a Great Product Meets a Weaker Moat
S1E18 - Why Expensive Oil Does Not Mean a Market Crash
S1E17 - When an Oil Shock Meets a Cautious Hawk
S1E16 - Why an August Bump Is Not an August Cut
S1E15 - The Beat Inside the Beat
S1E14 - Why 3x Is Not 3 Times
S1E13 - When Export Prices Rise Faster Than Import Prices
S1E12 - A Hawkish Speech Is Not a Hike
S1E11 - What a Crude Inventory Surprise Really Means
S1E10 — The Market, the Ticker, and the Wrapper
S1E9 — Three PMIs, One Story
S1E8 — When Revisions Change the Story
S1E7 — Two Ways to Play a Boom
S1E6 — Yield Cushion Is Not the Whole Cushion
S1E5 — Why Rate Cuts Don’t Always Save Markets
S1E4 - When the Fed and FRED Seem to Disagree
S1E3 - When Good Data Hurts Stocks
S1E2 - Long-Term Bets, Overnight Money
S1E1 — Market Clocks