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We talk economics and markets with leading policymakers and investors.

    Jim Leitner on Creating a Macro Edge, Trading Options and Carry Trades

    Jim Leitner on Creating a Macro Edge, Trading Options and Carry Trades

    This episode is sponsored by Amber Group
    Jim Leitner serves as President of Falcon Management Corporation and CIO of Falcon Family L.P., a family office. Previously, he worked as a foreign exchange trader at Morgan Guaranty, as Chief Dealer at Bank of America International, as Vice President for proprietary trading at Shearson Lehman and as Managing Director in the Global Trading Department at Bankers Trust. Jim was a member of the Yale Investment Committee from 2004 through to 2010. In this podcast we discuss why inflation could be more persistent, thoughts on bank crises, owning rather than using options, and much more.
     
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    Lindsay Politi on the Silicon Valley Bank Fall-Out, Duration Bubbles and Inflation

    Lindsay Politi on the Silicon Valley Bank Fall-Out, Duration Bubbles and Inflation

    Lindsay Politi is Head of Inflation Strategies at One River Asset Management. Lindsay began her career at Wellington Management in Boston where she was head of Global Inflation-linked Investments. In that role she was one of the top TIPS managers by assets, managing over $10 billion in dedicated assets, with a top quintile track record for excess in her peer group. She then joined Tudor Investment Corporation in Greenwich as a discretionary macro investor, translating her inflation strategy onto a macro hedge fund platform. She then joined One River Asset Management in 2018. In this podcast we discuss reframing the bank crisis as a duration bubble, how inflation distorts time, why shelter prices are not falling faster, and much more.

     
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    • 29 min
    Niall Ferguson on Cold War 2, Middle East Conflict and Woke Students

    Niall Ferguson on Cold War 2, Middle East Conflict and Woke Students

    Niall Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center at Harvard, where he served for twelve years as the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History. He is the author of sixteen books. This includes the international bestseller, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World. His most recent book is Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe. In addition to his academic work, he is the founder and managing director of Greenmantle LLC, an advisory firm. In this podcast we discuss the proper way to do historical analysis, the new conflict on AI and quantum, geological risks, and much more.
     
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    Mustafa Chowdhury on Mortgage Risks, Fed Shocks and Derivatives

    Mustafa Chowdhury on Mortgage Risks, Fed Shocks and Derivatives

    Mustafa is a rates guru and member of the research team at Macro Hive. Before this, Mustafa was the Head of Rates, FX, and Derivatives at Voya Investments, where he helped manage $40 billion of assets. Prior to that, he was a Managing Director and Head of US Rates and MBS Strategy at Deutsche Bank. And in the 1990s, he was Co-head of Asset-Liability Management at Freddie Mac, where he was responsible for managing one of the world’s largest fixed income derivatives portfolios and trading desks. In this podcast we discuss how financial institutions manage mortgages on their books, what triggered sub-prime/global financial crisis, why households and mortgage markets are safer today than 2008, and much more.
     
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    • 1 hr 3 min
    Timothy Ash on Russia’s Failure, China Intervention and EM Re-Alignment

    Timothy Ash on Russia’s Failure, China Intervention and EM Re-Alignment

    Timothy Ash is a Senior EM Sovereign Strategist at the $125bn fund, BlueBay, and is widely considered one of the leading experts on Ukraine and Russia. Prior to joining BlueBay, Tim was Head of CEEMEA Credit Strategy at Nomura International. Before this he was Head of EM Research (ex-Africa) at ICBC-Standard Bank until May 2015; Head of Emerging Markets Research at the Royal Bank of Scotland until June 2012; and Head of EMEA fixed income research at Bear Stearns International (later JPMorgan Chase) until April 2008. In this podcast we discuss what caused the collapse of the Soviet Union, why Russia didn’t have a quick victory against Ukraine, China brokering peace deal, and much more.
     
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    • 48 min
    Mikihiro Matsuoka on Japan Inflation, BoJ Outlook and Debt Problems

    Mikihiro Matsuoka on Japan Inflation, BoJ Outlook and Debt Problems

    Matsuoka-San is the Chief Economist of SBI Securities in Japan. Before that, he was the Chief Economist for Japan at Deutsche Bank. Overall, he has been involved in macroeconomic analysis at research institutions and financial institutions for the past 30 years. He is known to be one of the leading Japan economists with unique insights on structural issues. Over the years he has been highly ranked in numerous surveys including the Institutional Investor survey. In this podcast we discuss current trends in Japan inflation, outlook on BoJ actions, comparison between Prime Minister Kishida and Abe, and much more.
     
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    • 46 min

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5 Ratings

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Great guests

A different financial podcast with great guests that aren’t in the common fintwit podcast circles.

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Very well worth the time to listen

The product of having someone of Bilal’s quality conducting the conversations is a very insightful series of podcasts which move expediently on each topic

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