Monetary Matters with Jack Farley

The Triumphs & Crises of China’s Economy | Professor Barry Naughton on China’s Debt, Deflation, and “Industrial Policy 3.0”

Banks Under Fire From Executive Action | Jack & Max on Trump's Threatened 10% Credit Card Cap and How Executive Action Is Shaping Markets in Defense, Housing, Payments, Central Banking, and More

The Market’s Biggest Whales are Making Huge Changes: Total Portfolio Revolution | Steve Novakovic of CAIA

How China Could Dominate U.S. AI | Dr. Michael Power on Open Source and "The Three Assassins" of Moore's Law

Why Venezuela Won’t Solve America’s Real Energy Crisis | Michael Kao on AI, Electrification, and the Natural Gas Bottleneck

The podcast explores the complexities of U.S. energy security, particularly the shift from oil dependency to natural gas. Michael Kao, CIO of Acanthos Capital Management, argues that premature electrification and the rise of AI data centers are creating a new reliance on natural gas, potentially leading to supply crunc...

The Global Bull Market: Examining the Dramatic Outperformance of Global Stocks vs. the US | Jack & Max

The podcast analyzes global market performance in 2025, challenging the narrative of U.S. dominance. While U.S. equities performed well, particularly big tech, the All Country World Index and emerging markets, notably South Korea and China, outperformed. The discussion highlights that a significant number of companies ...

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Citrini’s 26 Trades for 2026 | Citrini on BS Jobs, AI Materials, Advanced Packaging, World Cup, & More

In this episode of Monetary Matters, Jack Farley interviews Citrini about thematic equity research and investment opportunities for 2026. Citrini shares insights from his "26 Trades for 2026" piece, discussing themes like AI broadening, advanced packaging, and potential commodity supply squeezes in natural gas and copp...

Investing Data is Evolving: AI, The Degenerate Economy & More | Matt Ober | Social Leverage

Investing in Gray | Pictet’s Maria Vassalou on Aging Demographics and Technological Innovations

China and the Reordering of World Trade | Former Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs Jay Shambaugh

Investing in India’s Macro Tailwinds & Aerospace & Defense with Andrei Stetsenko

From Bad to Less Bad: A Quantitative Approach to Turnarounds | Bloomberg Indices’ Steve Hou on “Reformers Index,” Baumol Disease, and Structural Inflation

Allocators Want What They Want | Andrew Beer on Pod Shops, “Volatility Laundering,” and Building Liquid Alts That Don’t Suck

In this episode of Monetary Matters, Jack Farley interviews Andrew Beer, founder and managing member of DBI, about hedge funds, alternative investments, and strategies for wealth management. They discuss the focus on drawdown and volatility minimization in the institutional investment space, questioning whether allocat...

How This Value Investor Beat the Market and Grew His Hedge Fund | Yaron Naymark | 1 Main Capital

The AI Data Center Short | Jim Chanos on Oracle, Data Centers Landlords, and GPU Merchants

In this episode of Monetary Matters, Jack Farley interviews Jim Chanos of Chanos and Company about his views on AI, data centers, and related investments. Chanos expresses skepticism about investing in data centers and companies that host GPUs, considering it a low-margin commodity business. He suggests focusing on pur...

“Mother All Crises” | Luke Gromen on America’s Choice Between AI Dominance and Real Value of Treasury Market

In this episode of Monetary Matters, Jack Farley interviews Luke Gromen about the complex interplay between US economic policy, reshoring efforts, and global power dynamics. Gromen argues that the US faces a difficult choice between maintaining the real value of its bond market and competing with China in the AI race, ...

Beating Bitcoin at Scale with Directional Crypto Strategies | Sam Gaer of Monarq Asset Management

Why Metals Are Soaring While Oil Stalls | CME Chief Economist Erik Norland on Precious Metals, Oil, Copper, and More

In this episode of Monetary Matters, Jack Farley interviews Erik Norland, Chief Economist at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), about macroeconomics and the commodities market. They discuss the recent surge in silver prices, the impact of solar panel and battery demand, and the role of central banks in precious met...

China’s Involution Trap | Michael Pettis on China's Excess Savings, Industrial Overcapacity, and Exporting of Deflation

In this episode of Monetary Matters, Jack Farley interviews Michael Pettis about the imbalances within the Chinese economy and between China and the rest of the world. Pettis explains how China's high savings rate and low consumption rate lead to trade surpluses, which are invested abroad, particularly in Anglophone ec...