What'd You Miss This Week

Aug 14 2021 164 ep. 29 mins 4.7k

What'd You Miss This Week Podcast artwork

Every week, we feature the best and most interesting interviews from Bloomberg's daily market close show, "What'd You Miss" hosted by Joe Weisenthal, Caroline Hyde and Romaine Bostick. We want to take you beyond the headlines and bring you a unique perspective on the week's top stories, and those you may just have missed. It's the perfect way to kick off your weekend.

Copy RSS

Subscribe on Podcast Addict

Fiat Currency is Having a Midlife Crisis

Aug 14 2021 27 mins

This week, Jon Huntley, senior economist at the Penn Wharton Budget Model, came on to discuss the budgetary and economic impact of the infrastructure package. Rune Christensen, the co-founder of MakerDAO, joined to talk DeFi and decentralized stable coins. Zvi Schreiber, the CEO and founder of Freightos, an internet marketplace for the trillion-dollar international freight market,

Serial SPAC-er Betsy Cohen Finds Her Seventh Target

Aug 07 2021 28 mins

Serial SPAC dealmaker Betsy Cohen joined to talk about finding her seventh target, Pico, a New York-based technology provider for financial services companies that merged with FTAC Athena Acquisition Corp. in a $1.75 billion blank-check company deal. Senator Cynthia Lummis, Republican of Wyoming, came on to discuss the cryptocurrency amendment holding up the infrastructure package

Companies Have Lost the Distinction Between Data and Information

Jul 31 2021 27 mins

This week, NYU Stern School of Business finance professor Aswath Damodaran, joined to talk about why corporate earnings reports and regulatory filings keep getting longer, and why it's not necessarily a good thing for investors. Professor Damodaran explained why he thinks we are having a "disclosure dilemma" with all of this additional corporate data leading to even less informatio

Crypto Investors Are Used to Volatility

Jul 24 2021 27 mins

This week, Grayscale Investments CEO Michael Sonnenshein joined to react to bitcoin's selling off below $30,000 and said crypto investors are used to the volatility. Chairman and CEO of United Wholesale Mortgage Mat Ishbia went through this week's housing data and explained why he thinks the housing market will stay hot. Nicole Perrin, an emarketer principal analyst at Insider Inte

Why There's a Six-Month Wait for Garage Doors

Jul 17 2021 30 mins

This week, Binance.US CEO Brian Brooks joined along with Bloomberg Wall Street correspondent Sonali Basak to talk about hiring ex-regulator Manuel Alvarez and why regulation does not have to be a bad thing for the crypto space. Alyse Killeen, the founding managing partner at StillMark, the first Bitcoin-specific venture capital firm, discussed investing in bitcoin. Rick Palacios, p

Why Truck Drivers Are So Hard to Find Right Now

Jul 10 2021 25 mins

This week, Chad Cascarilla, the co-founder and CEO of Paxos, a regulated blockchain platform that has its own stable coin, came on to talk the use and regulation of stable coins. Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and CEO of FTX, a cryptocurrency derivatives platform, discussed their recent publicity push becoming the official crypto partner of Major League Baseball and getting the nam

Global Liquidity Could Be Reaching Inflection Point

Jun 26 2021 29 mins

This week, Mercury Group CEO Adam Posner came on to talk about bottlenecks in the global supply chain and why there have been astronomical jumps in shipping rates. Audacity Capital founder and general partner Erikan Obotetukudo discussed forming the first VC firm focused solely on crypto startups and the opportunity she sees in the space. Win Thin, head of global currency strategy

Investing is Now a Pop Culture Phenomenon

Jun 19 2021 36 mins

This week, Gary Vaynerchuk, who is a board member of the sports memorabilia company Candy, CEO of VaynerMedia, and has a new NFT project called VeeFriends, joined to talk about the resurgence in trading cards, how investing has become a pop culture phenomenon and why alternative investments hold more social currency than stocks. Ursula Burns, former CEO of Xerox and senior advisor

Elizabeth Warren's Plan to Tame the "Wild West" of Crypto

Jun 12 2021 31 mins

Heather Boushey, a member of President Biden's Council of Economic Advisers, joined to discuss the jobs report and the why payrolls keep falling short of expectations. Ali Wolf, the chief economist at Zonda, a housing data and research firm, came on to talk about whether the housing market fever is finally showing signs of breaking. Nick Carter, the founding partner of Castle Islan

AMC Embraces the Meme Stock Frenzy

Jun 05 2021 27 mins

This week, Roshun Patel, vice president of institutional lending at Genesis, a full-service digital currency prime brokerage, joined to talk about the asset class that never sleeps: crypto, and its wild weekend trading. Chad Beynon, a senior gaming, lodging and theatres analyst at Macquarie Capital, joined alongside Bloomberg cross-asset reporter Katie Greifeld to talk about AMC em