Katie and Matt discuss fees for mergers and acquisitions, private assets in ETFs, liquidity mismatches, and reader questions about asset-manager parties, poker staking and finite alpha.

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Katie and Matt discuss Trump Media’s stock sale, people who are too good at sports betting and stock trading, and single-stock private funds. 

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Katie and Matt discuss nonconsensual third-party releases, what comes next for the Oxycontin bankruptcy, empty voting in proxy fights, and writing your future clone into your will. Also we tease Katie's sci-fi novel and introduce a new member of Matt's family.

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Katie and Matt discuss short squeezes past, present and future, interviewing for private equity jobs two years in advance, and how if you want to own stock but with less risk, you can just sell some of your stock.

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Katie and Matt discuss auditing classes at portfolio manager school, getting on television by pretending to buy public companies, and how to make a few billion dollars by rolling up the building products distribution industry.

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Matt and Katie discuss Elon's big payday (maybe), Paramount's lost deal and Wells Fargo's vice president of screen monitoring.

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Matt and Katie discuss a new stock exchange in Texas (and also New Jersey), Bill Ackman's multiple public offerings and what Roaring Kitty is up to.

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Matt and Katie discuss the move to T+1 stock settlement, Elon Musk's pay vote, Bill Hwang's trial and a fat finger trade.

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Matt and Katie discuss Red Lobster's shrimpy bankruptcy, Citi's software design and unconscious investing.

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Katie and Matt discuss the return of meme stocks, a money market fund on the blockchain, events contracts and whether the Oscars are rigged.

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