Whimsical Dreams and Personal Anecdotes

This week Daisy and Francis are joined by Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart), one half of Bloomberg's Odd Lots Podcast and one of the biggest names in finance-Twitter.

00:00 Welcoming Joe Weisenthal, our favourite financial poster

02:00 The beard is natures mew

04:02 How working in different mediums shapes your view

10:05 The impact of the Fed rate cuts on startups and everyday people

14:52 The Gen X/Y/Z litmus tests

16:29 Is symbolism behind a quarter of a percent

21:10 The horseshoe of Lina Khan’s popularity

26:52 The triumph of the yuppies — where have all gone?

30:18 The modern divergence of political and cultural power

31:48 Restaurants are the new nightclubs

34:49 The evolving view on ‘selling out’

37:30 Is the populism pendulum swinging back?

39:04 The fundamental similarities between country music and Christmas songs

40:43 Picking apart Industry, and loving it

46:08 Gambling and the thrill of losing

48:25 The light in the dark of Industry

51:04 The devolution of twitter, half a million tweets later