Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Wall Street Skinny, Jen unpacks an overlooked risk brewing beneath the surface of financial markets. Why did Jerome Powell, head of the Fed, deliver such a surprisingly “dovish” speech at Jackson Hole? Jen suggests it may be because he sees this liquidity problem coming. Looking ahead, Kristen and Jen walk listeners t ... Show More
Jun 19
Elon Musk Engineered SpaceX IPO "Perfectly": But What Comes Next When 95% of Stock Unlocks?
Send us Fan MailAfter the largest IPO in history (SpaceX, ticker SPCX, priced at $135), only about 5% of the company — roughly $83 billion — is actually free to trade. Insiders are locked up, the banks that underwrote the deal can't lend shares to short sellers, and index funds a ... Show More
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Mar 2024
How JPMorgan thrived amid a banking crisis
<p>It’s been a year since Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse left everyone worried that the US’s banking sector sat on shaky ground. Despite that turmoil, one bank stands out: JPMorgan Chase. The largest bank in the country, JPMorgan took home record profits in 2023, and its dom ... Show More
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Sep 2025
Deep Dive: Can the Figure IPO Live Up to the Hype?
Figure is making a huge promise: to reinvent Wall Street by building the future of capital markets on the blockchain. They think by cutting out the army of middlemen in the financial system, they can make everything from home loans to complex trading faster, cheaper, and more tra ... Show More
10m 59s
Dec 2025
What's next for global banking?
Banking has had a couple of very good years—the best, in fact, since the global financial crisis of 2007–09. Yet to some, the industry’s outlook seems less buoyant than recent profitability might suggest. On this episode of The McKinsey Podcast, McKinsey Senior Partners Klaus Dal ... Show More
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Apr 2025
Jesse Felder: Stocks, Bonds & the U.S. Dollar Are All Breaking
Are we heading into a full-blown reset across financial markets? In this explosive interview, Jesse Felder, founder of The Felder Report, joins James Connor to issue a dire warning: stocks, bonds, and the U.S. dollar are all dangerously mispriced, and a major repricing event may ... Show More
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