About this episode
Katie and Matt discuss various topics including market manipulation, insurance, and the hedge fund hiring market.
Katie and Matt discuss bringing children to work, the weather in one corner of Charles de Gaulle airport, an infinite surface for market manipulation, bespoke parametric insurance, the Avis Budget short squeeze (maybe), the meme-stock playbook, SpaceX buying Cursor (maybe), SpaceX buying Tesla (maybe???), dual-class stock, robot armies annihilating each other off the shoulder of Orion, the word “gazumping” and the hedge fund hiring market. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
People in this episode
Hosts: Katie, Matt
Topics covered
- children at work
- market manipulation
- insurance
- short squeeze
- hedge fund
- robot armies
Keywords
- market manipulation
- bespoke insurance
- short squeeze
- meme stocks
- hedge funds
- robot armies
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: SpaceX, Tesla, Avis Budget
Books & works: gazumping
Places: Charles de Gaulle airport, Orion
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