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Odd Lots
with Daniel Okonkwo

What a Tariff Actually Does to a Supply Chain — Odd Lots

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Odd Lots54 min

Hosted by Nell Hartigan & Owen Pryce

Summary2/5

What a Tariff Actually Does to a Supply Chain

Tracing one component from order to landed cost to find out who really pays.

Rather than argue about incidence in the abstract, this episode follows a single industrial component through quoting, shipping, customs and final assembly, and puts a number on each step. The result is messier than either side of the debate assumes: the split shifts with contract length, substitution options and who holds inventory risk. The guest is good on the difference between the first year and the third.

Key takes3/5

Incidence in year one is mostly the importer; by year three it has migrated into price and sourcing decisions.

Contract length determines who eats the cost far more than bargaining-power arguments do.

Substitution happens at the component level long before it happens at the supplier level.

Key takes4/5

Inventory positioning ahead of an announced tariff distorts trade data for two to three quarters.

Mentioned5/5

Companies & tickers

  • CAT
  • DE

Topics

  • Tariffs
  • Supply chains
  • Trade
  • Manufacturing
  • Inventory

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Money Stuff: The Podcast
with Sam Ferreira

The Market Maker of Last Resort — Money Stuff: The Podcast

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Money Stuff: The Podcast35 min

Hosted by Ruth Calloway & Ben Adeyemi

Summary2/5

The Market Maker of Last Resort

When liquidity provision becomes a public utility, who sets the price of the option?

An argument about backstops: every liquidity backstop is a written option, somebody is short it, and the premium is almost never collected. The episode works through Treasury market interventions, central clearing proposals and what the basis trade looks like if the backstop is priced honestly. It is more about incentives than any single policy.

Key takes3/5

An uncollected backstop premium is a subsidy to whoever is most levered into the trade it protects.

Central clearing changes the shape of the risk without reducing the amount of it.

The basis trade is a rates trade wearing an arbitrage costume; its size is the policy problem.

Key takes4/5

Pricing the option explicitly is the only reform that changes behaviour rather than location.

Mentioned5/5

Companies & tickers

  • CME

Topics

  • Treasury market
  • Liquidity
  • Clearing
  • Basis trade
  • Regulation

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Invest Like the Best
with Marta Velez

The Allocator Who Stopped Rebalancing — Invest Like the Best

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Invest Like the Best1 hr 15 min

Hosted by Theo Lindqvist

Summary2/5

The Allocator Who Stopped Rebalancing

A case for letting winners run inside an institutional mandate, and the governance cost of it.

The guest describes moving a large institutional book away from calendar rebalancing toward band-based drift with explicit governance limits, why the investment committee resisted it, and what the first drawdown did to that agreement. Most of the value is in the governance detail rather than the portfolio theory.

Key takes3/5

Calendar rebalancing is a governance artifact more than an investment decision.

Band-based drift only survives if the committee pre-commits in writing to the drawdown behaviour.

The hardest part is not the policy, it is the reporting that makes drift legible to a board.

Key takes4/5

Tax and transaction savings are real but second-order next to the behavioural benefit.

Mentioned5/5

Topics

  • Asset allocation
  • Rebalancing
  • Governance
  • Institutional investing

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Forward Guidance
with Sam Ferreira

Liquidity Is a Behaviour, Not a Number — Forward Guidance

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Forward Guidance1 hr 5 min

Hosted by Ada Kowalczyk

Summary2/5

Liquidity Is a Behaviour, Not a Number

Why every popular liquidity aggregate measures something different from what it claims.

A critical tour of the liquidity indicators that circulate on financial social media — net liquidity, reserve balances, the TGA and RRP — and what each actually measures. The guest is not dismissive: the argument is that each is informative about a specific mechanism and useless as a general market predictor. The last twenty minutes build a more honest framework.

Key takes3/5

Net liquidity charts conflate three unrelated mechanisms and inherit the noisiest one.

Reserve balances matter for funding markets and almost nothing for equity valuation.

The TGA moves money between accounts; the transmission to risk assets is indirect and slow.

Key takes4/5

A useful liquidity framework starts from who is forced to transact, not from a balance-sheet aggregate.

Mentioned5/5

Topics

  • Liquidity
  • Central banking
  • TGA
  • Reserves
  • Market plumbing

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