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Money Stuff: Leveraged ETF Crash Hedging ETF

Money Stuff Cliquet, taxes, Santos, wallet, dentist. View in browser Subscribe to Bloomberg.com for unlimited access to all our coverage. Leveraged ETF crash put cliquet ETF Last weekend Bloomberg’s Yiqin Shen published a fun story that would make...

Matt Levine |

Benedict's Newsletter: No. 654

NO. 654 FREE EDITION SUNDAY 2 AUG 2026 SPONSORED BY ATTIO https://attio.com/?utm_source=benedicts_newsletter&utm;_medium=newsletter_sponsorship&utm;_campaign=benedicts_newsletter-Y26 PSA: Your CRM is only as useful as the context it can act on....

Benedict Evans |

400 / Hitting ‘send’ for the 579th time

First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice. – OCTAVIA BUTLER Artwork by Nina...

Dense Discovery |

Money Stuff: Hedgehog Hedge Fund

Money Stuff Hedging, margin, agents, wallets, hacks. View in browser Subscribe to Bloomberg.com for unlimited access to all our coverage. Situational Awareness: hedging One thing you could do, as an investor, is try to figure out which stocks will go...

Matt Levine |

The paradox of middle power decline

View this post on the web at https://jamescrabtree.substack.com/p/the-paradox- of-middle-power-decline Greetings from northern France, where we have escaped for a short break. Below a few thoughts on a conundrum faced by Britain’s new PM, an essay on...

James Crabtree |

Situational Awareness

View this post on the web at https://theoilbandit.substack.com/p/situational- awareness After falling nearly 20% in just three trading sessions, crude found its footing in the high $80s as the July Brent contract expires. Throughout July, Brent traded...

Oil not Dead |

Money Stuff: The Podcast: No Kiddie Pool

Money Stuff This week’s episode of the Money Stuff podcast is out now. My guest-co-host this week is Bloomberg’s Silvia Killingsworth. We discuss the Si Podcast This week’s episode of the Money Stuff podcast is out now. My guest- co-host this week is...

Matt Levine |

Money Stuff: The Situation Deteriorated

Money Stuff Elections, PBCs, Ionic, WLFI. View in browser Subscribe to Bloomberg.com for unlimited access to all our coverage. Situational Awareness Being bullish on artificial intelligence has been, for the most part, a great trade. Nvidia Corp.’s...

Matt Levine |

Money Stuff: SpaceX Crash Insurance

Money Stuff Structured notes, sports, ETFs, slop. View in browser Subscribe to Bloomberg.com for unlimited access to all our coverage. SpaceX structured notes Here’s a neat little piece of derivatives structuring. Let’s say you’re an investment...

Matt Levine |

Money Stuff: Elevators Won’t Repair Themselves

Money Stuff Sponsors, parlays, pivots, trust. View in browser Independent sponsors My half-joking potted history of business is that people used to go to business school to learn how to run businesses, and then they would graduate and run...

Matt Levine |

Benedict's Newsletter: No. 653

NO. 653 FREE EDITION SUNDAY 26 JUL 2026 SPONSORED BY LARRIDIN https://us.list- manage.com/13KnhpaRN2E?e=0646444dc3&c2id;=9e8194e1a37a39593be010b11f77be0d Larridin...

Benedict Evans |

What Does It Look Like When You Handle Disruption Well?

********* Commoncog ********* a newsletter on accelerating business expertise \------------------- Commoncog This Week \------------------- This week's Commoncog case is free; next week's piece will be members-only. A New Series about Folks Handling...

Cedric from Commoncog |

399 / Not a machine: on fragility and self-worth

Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. – SUSAN SONTAG Artwork by Kate Gorbenko [1] [Dense Discovery] [2] [Dense Discovery] [2] HELLO DISCOVERERS! My mum recently had orthopaedic surgery,...

Dense Discovery |

Money Stuff: A Merger Closing Mystery

Money Stuff Record dates, futures, fraud, indexes. View in browser Record date oopsie XOMA Royalty Corp. and Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc. are biotechnology royalty aggregators : They finance biotechnology companies by buying the rights to future drug...

Matt Levine |

The Odyssey

View this post on the web at https://theoilbandit.substack.com/p/the-odyssey Where do we even begin? If we have to explain this week’s rally, it cannot be pinned on a single event, rather, it was the culmination of a series of developments we were...

Oil not Dead |

Money Stuff: The Podcast: Worried Noises

Money Stuff This week’s episode of the Money Stuff podcast is out now. It’s Katie’s last episode for a while, though we will still be bringing you some Podcast This week’s episode of the Money Stuff podcast is out now. It’s Katie’s last episode for a...

Matt Levine |

The Copium Wars (This Week in Stratechery)

The best Stratechery content from the week of July 20, 2026 including Chinese models and frontier futures, what happened to Hugging Face, and the NBA and its second apron bet. View in browser (...

Ben Thompson |

Money Stuff: Sports Happen So Much

Money Stuff Index, basis, API, 10b5-1. View in browser Sports index Last month, I made some jokes about a prediction-market index, which struck me as a funny idea. I wrote : Prediction-market investors could use the index to benchmark their own...

Matt Levine |

Money Stuff: The SEC Pays a Texting Fine

Money Stuff Phones, 351s, lockups, zombies. View in browser Personal phones It was illegal, from about 2021 through about 2025, for employees of financial firms to text or WhatsApp about work on their personal phones. The theory was thatUS securities...

Matt Levine |

Money Stuff: LSE Will Trade 22.83 Hours a Day

Money Stuff 22.83/5, BLK v. BLK, ticking, VPN, gold. View in browser 22.8333/5 trading Most stock exchanges run on old-fashioned human timeframes. The exchange opens after breakfast, it trades for a while, and then it closes so people can wrap things...

Matt Levine |

Benedict's Newsletter: No. 652

NO. 652 FREE EDITION SUNDAY 19 JUL 2026 SPONSORED BY LARRIDIN https://us.list- manage.com/fHgl1s7oYBQ?e=0646444dc3&c2id;=9e8194e1a37a39593be010b11f77be0d Larridin...

Benedict Evans |

How Moats are Built

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Cedric from Commoncog |

398 / Cold turkey on the outrage machine

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. – HERBERT A. SIMON Artwork by Francesco Bongiorni [1] [Dense Discovery] [2] [Dense Discovery] [2]...

Dense Discovery |

Money Stuff: Ice Cream Hedging

Money Stuff API, LCDL, 10Q, peptides, reinspection. View in browser Ice cream hedge Oh sure : 28wishes, a bougie independent ice cream parlor in downtown Los Angeles, has been gaining cash on Kalshi, the online “prediction market” app that lets users...

Matt Levine |

Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? (Stratechery Article 7-20-2026)

Everyone is worried about Chinese models, but the frontier labs will be fine; we need to enable open U.S. alternatives. View in browser...