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Money Mysteries

Katy & Theo15 episodes

Why prices end in 99, why airlines overbook, and the invisible systems that decide what you pay.

Episodes

  1. 1Was Tulip Mania Really a Bubble?Bulbs worth more than houses, a room that went silent, and the bubble historians can't agree on.6 min
  2. 2The Economics of Self-Published RomanceRomance print sales jumped fifty-two percent in a shrinking market. The real money gets counted one page at a time.6 min
  3. 3The Case for a SpaceX-Tesla MergerMegapacks, chip fabs and a ninety percent bet: inside the case for merging Tesla and SpaceX.7 min
  4. 4The SpaceX IPO: Why It Hasn't Happened YetSpaceX spent twenty years saying no to Wall Street. Then it filed the biggest IPO in history.7 min
  5. 5The Day Spotify Fired Its BankersA pop on day one feels like a win. Jay Ritter's data says it's billions handed to someone else.7 min
  6. 6How the SPAC Boom and Bust WorkedSix hundred shells, a truck rolling downhill, and the math that made sponsors rich.8 min
  7. 7Structured Credit Explained: ABS, CMBS and CLOsTwo machines sliced loans into bonds. One blew up the world. The other barely blinked.8 min
  8. 8How Loans Get Sliced Into TranchesThe same financial Lego bricks blew up in two thousand eight and sailed through it. The difference is one number.8 min
  9. 9Credit Rating Agencies and 2008Three companies decide what's safe. In two thousand seven they were catastrophically wrong. Are they wrong again right now?7 min
  10. 10Your Mortgage Was Sold Before You UnpackedOne man signed off on eight thousand foreclosure files a month. Here's the machine behind him.7 min
  11. 11The Formula That Guessed How Houses Fall TogetherOne number decided whether the safest bonds on Earth were safe. Everyone guessed it.6 min
  12. 15Goldman Sachs and the Claim That AI Replaced Its Bond TradersSix hundred traders supposedly fired overnight and replaced by an algorithm. We checked it against the record — and found a slower, strange…6 min
  13. 16How Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Rolled Out AI to Their BankersForty thousand Goldman staff use the firm's AI assistant every week. So what's left for the twenty-three-year-old analyst?6 min
  14. 17Why European Banks Lost Wall Street to the Americans After 2008Deutsche, Credit Suisse, SocGen: how Europe's banking giants shrank while JPMorgan and Goldman took the top table.7 min
  15. 18How Private Credit Funds Took Corporate Lending From BanksAfter 2008, regulators pushed risky loans out of banks. Apollo, Ares and Blue Owl caught them — and now two trillion dollars of corporate d…7 min