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Unhedged — 305 episodes

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1

What’s bothering bonds?

2

Can GameStop buy eBay?

3

The Buy America trade

4

Are AI stocks the new railroad bonds?

5

Introducing: The Story of Money

6

The Fed holds steady

7

Gloom and boom

8

China Shock 2.0

9

Trading disruption

10

Boing! Springtime for the markets

11

Space ecstasy

12

What has changed?

13

Guns and butter and credit

14

How an energy crisis unfolds

15

 Is this social media's tobacco moment?

16

The rout in UK and European bonds

17

Why are markets listening to Trump?

18

The Fed’s juggling act

19

Are the markets right or wrong about Iran?

20

Uncomfortable moments in private credit

21

Wildest day for oil ever

22

The case against stablecoins

23

Energy prices up, markets down

24

What the actual tariff?

25

The report that rattled Wall Street

26

How low can the dollar go?

27

Introducing 'Behind the Money': Can Wells Fargo make it in investment banking?

28

Is AI creating jobs?

29

What Takaichi's win means for global markets

30

The triangle of confusion

31

The next Fed chair

32

The incredible shrinking dollar

33

How does a gold rush end?

34

Taco FTW

35

Trade wars, real wars and the markets

36

Introducing 'Business History': Young Warren Buffett

37

Stock picking champs 2025

38

Showdown at the Federal Reserve

39

Outlook 2026

40

Imperialism and the markets

41

From Behind the Money: Private equity’s push into Japan

42

Quiz show!

43

From Against the Rules: Michael Burry Speaks

44

We take some questions

45

Three numbers that matter

46

Gold, silver and crypto

47

Can 2026 match 2025?

48

Who gets to buy Warner Bros Discovery?

49

A satanic list of inflationary factors

50

Bonds vs budgets

51

What are the hedge funds shorting?

52

Nvidia's crazy day

53

Big deals in Big Pharma

54

Is the K-shaped economy real?

55

Is the US an emerging market?

56

DIY data

57

Is Big Tech spending too much money?

58

Martin Wolf on the economics of populism

59

The vigorous nods of Bessent

60

Will the US bail out Argentina?

61

Japan’s next move

62

Rare earth quake

63

UK Budget blues

64

AI peak is peak AI

65

Introducing Untold: Toxic Legacy

66

Gold now! Gold forever! Only gold! Gold! Gold!

67

AI, shutdowns and shadow banks

68

The largest leveraged buyout in history?

69

Troubling signs in corporate debt

70

Hedging the dollar

71

Should companies report only twice a year?

72

Private equity’s public reckoning

73

The mystery of the vanishing jobs

74

Live from the FTWeekend Festival in London

75

What’s a central bank supposed to do?

76

OK, Doomer

77

The people’s chip manufacturer

78

The Fed under attack

79

The new pump and dumps

80

Is the market too concentrated?

81

Will markets ever care about anything?

82

Lies, damn lies and statistics

83

Swamp Notes: Trump’s case against Fed chair Powell

84

The Economics Show: Trump is accelerating the dollar’s decline

85

The Little Railroad Merger That Could

86

The EU folds on tariffs

87

Is M&A turning around?

88

Robotaxis, tech earnings and 24-hour trading

89

Is Nvidia really worth $4tn?

90

Heinz, Kraft and Warren Buffett

91

The secret giant of finance

92

Three surprises that might spook the markets

93

The dilapidated dollar

94

Building a big beautiful Europe

95

Can anything stop the US economy?

96

Who wants to be a Fed chair?

97

Behind the Money: Inside Moët Hennessy’s crisis

98

What the Israel-Iran war means for markets

99

What makes Tesla run?

100

Welcome to the ‘Hotel Crypto’

101

Walmart’s very good year

102

Stock market party but why?

103

The nasty Taco question

104

The ‘big beautiful’ budget vs the bond market

105

When Spacs attack

106

The microcap explosion

107

The UK’s trade deal

108

Not-so-bad news is the new good news

109

Berkshire after Buffett

110

Will the real money pivot to Europe?

111

GDP goes negative

112

Bad shipping news

113

Wall Street vs the White House

114

Sell America?

115

Nvidia’s bad day

116

Will China back down?

117

The real cost of a trade war

118

Surveying the wreckage

119

Tariffs up. Markets down

120

Vibes vs data

121

What does CoreWeave’s IPO say about the market?

122

Can Trump drive down bond yields?

123

Dour Fed, cheery market

124

How will Europe pay for its new weapons?

125

Make America Gyrate Again

126

The case for China

127

Trump dump?

128

Can the Fed stay independent?

129

The beatings will continue until markets improve

130

Vibrational movements in the market

131

Is the IPO market broken?

132

Pros and cons of a US sovereign wealth fund

133

The other side of trade

134

Why is gold buggin’?

135

Will Trump’s tariffs make Europe great again?

136

What’s next for Trump’s tariffs?

137

Picking stocks for 2025

138

DeepSeek, AI and the markets

139

Decoding Trumponomics

140

Our 2024 stock picks

141

Will US inflation ever go below 3%?

142

What are UK bonds thinking?

143

Why so many bankruptcies?

144

The year ahead: tariffs, taxes and Trump

145

The listeners have questions

146

The Bitcoin National Strategic wha?

147

Rate drop, market drop

148

Will IPOs ever come back?

149

Is M&A back?

150

Geopolitics? What geopolitics?

151

What can Trump do about the price of oil?

152

Are US stocks too expensive?

153

Best of: the world’s greatest stocks

154

How inflationary are tariffs, really?

155

Looking at 2025

156

Disinflation, demographics, Doge

157

Live from Kilkenomics: anger and economics

158

Live from Kilkenomics: financial mistakes

159

The Trump economy. How big? How beautiful?

160

Do the markets even care about the US election?

161

Magnificent 7 report

162

Can Boeing come back?

163

What do bond markets know about the election?

164

The titans of Wall Street

165

The $2tn man

166

Are emerging markets back?

167

Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly and the GLP-1 economy

168

Markets send mixed signals

169

Markets and the Middle East

170

Is the China stimulus package enough?

171

Immigration and unemployment

172

The case for small and mid caps

173

Federal Reserve puts on enormous party hat

174

What is Apollo, anyway?

175

How Ireland got too much money

176

The Fed: will it be 25 or 50?

177

How to fix the housing market

178

Boring but sexy (stocks)

179

The ethics of investing for dictators

180

The gold rally

181

What will Jay Powell say at Jackson Hole?

182

Markets resume previously scheduled exuberance

183

The world’s greatest stocks

184

30 years of bond investment

185

What’s up with Bill Ackman?

186

Anatomy of a rout

187

The case for Tesla

188

Why Wall Street picked Kamala Harris

189

How to manipulate the US dollar

190

The Trump trade

191

Will a major revision of listing rules in the UK work?

192

Investing in green tech

193

Paramount, Skydance and the streaming wars

194

What elections in France and the UK mean for markets

195

Can Morgan Stanley's CEO build a better bank?

196

Are we all protectionists now?

197

Distressed IPOs

198

Elon Musk’s big payday

199

Central bankers do nothing. Markets respond

200

Trade like a bot

201

The gamma squeeze

202

What elections mean for markets this year

203

The billionaires’ tax

204

Who killed Red Lobster?

205

Where’s the commercial property meltdown?

206

The cocoa boom

207

Bridgewater’s new boss

208

GameStop again?

209

The fight for Paramount

210

What’s next for Warren Buffett

211

Is Fed policy working?

212

Why the US dollar is the world’s problem

213

Bonus: The fraudster's guide to magic money with Tim Harford

214

The diamond market disrupted

215

Active changes to passive indices

216

How oil got to $90 a barrel

217

High interest rate anxiety

218

Shopify vs Amazon

219

Should we worry about private credit?

220

Rethinking Tesla and Apple

221

Navigating the next super cycle

222

Wall Street bets on Reddit

223

The great British bargain show

224

Inside the crypto hype machine

225

Listener Questions

226

Can the US stock market stand 3% US inflation?

227

Does factor investing still work?

228

Inside the traders’ black box

229

Learning to love the boom

230

Is ESG over?

231

Three markets, three highs

232

WeWork rework

233

Active investors! Assemble

234

The dilemma of the supercompany

235

Are dividends back?

236

How not to pick stocks

237

High-yield bond bonanza

238

Will commercial real estate hurt regional banks?

239

Can China rebound in 2024?

240

Boardroom games

241

Two stock markets, two takes

242

Is America overpriced?

243

Cash Rethink Energises Asset Markets

244

Introducing Untold: The Retreat

245

Today's inflation numbers

246

Tech stock winners

247

Cool markets, hot takes

248

The year ahead, according to AI, and humans

249

The Unhedged Awards

250

Markets gone wild

251

Thirty-seven years of wisdom

252

Central bank lookahead

253

The return of crypto

254

Introducing Hot Money: The New Narcos

255

Gold just set a record. Why?

256

Down the liquidity hole

257

Have rates peaked?

258

What the London Stock Exchange really trades

259

The zombie companies

260

What does Walmart know?

261

Big Tech roundup: Tesla, Nvidia, Apple and more

262

A drastic solution to exploding US government debt

263

Pub quiz showdown: Alphaville vs Unhedged

264

Sam Bankman-Fried takes the stand

265

Why so down, S&P 500?

266

A massive GDP number

267

Is China a bargain right now?

268

FTX trial update

269

Japan’s new direction

270

Public problems for private equity

271

Three markets we’re watching

272

The Biden scorecard

273

The increasingly odd bond market

274

How high, and for how long?

275

The strong US dollar gets stronger

276

Well, actually: Our ‘Dumb Money’ movie review

277

Basis trade freakout (low key)

278

Bonus Interview: Robyn Grew, Man Group CEO

279

Three IPOs test the market

280

A Tale of Two Housing Markets

281

Big win for Big Crypto

282

Good job numbers and a bad attitude

283

The central bankers’ rodeo

284

It’s tough out there for Goldman Sachs

285

Hot new bad idea

286

Disney’s Tragic Kingdom

287

China slows down

288

Icahn has problems?

289

How bonds make — and break — nations

290

Uber finally delivers

291

The case for a soft landing

292

The billionaire charged with insider trading

293

Big week for central banks

294

The private credit boom

295

Getting inflation wrong

296

The 2023 Unhedged stock draft

297

Why the bond market matters now

298

Harry Markowitz found a free lunch in finance

299

Will empty offices hurt the US economy?

300

Does Japan’s stock market rally have legs?

301

What’s going on with car insurance?

302

Why investors hate this bull market

303

Is crypto a security, bro?

304

Where’s the recession?

305

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