Trends with Friends

Ted Merz, Yield Curves, AI, Financial Info, Routines, and Social Standards — Trends w/ Friends EP. 6

Mar 10, 2023

59:26

On this episode of Trends with Friends — Ted Merz joins Howard Lindzon, JC Parets, Phil Pearlman and Riley Rosebee to review the State of the Market, the future of AI and Financial Information, Yield Curves, European Financials, Routines, Social Standards and more.

Chapters:

(00:00) Welcome Back

(00:38) Chart Art

(02:18) Does Anyone Care About The Fed?

(02:40) NASDAQ, New Highs - New Lows

(06:39) The Machines Win

(07:53) European vs. US Financials

(09:07) Welcome, Ted Merz

(09:50) Why LinkedIn?

(11:07) Bloomberg’s AI Battlezone

(13:10) Howard’s Chat GPT Obituary

(14:24) AI To Summarize + Analyze Financial Information

(15:25) Leveling the Financial Playing Field

(16:01) Adding Noise

(18:47) The Future of Twitter and Bloomberg

(21:07) Twitter is an Unstructured Warehouse

(24:20) Will Twitter Honor Bloomberg’s Contract?

(25:30) Posting Native Content

(28:09) Follow Great People to Find Value

(29:07) New Social Standards

(30:31) Social Standards, What’s Old is New

(31:11) Hashtags Are Ugly

(32:23) Elon is a Dick

(35:04) Twitter Never Had Balls

(37:45) Be Nice

(43:06) Elon’s Fake Apology

(43:45) Do We Need to Talk About the Yield Curve?

(46:23) Tuning our Intuition

(48:27) Peak Performers Rely on Routines

(49:33) Airpods’ Effect on our Senses

(51:55) Remember The Notorious B.I.G.

(53:43) Final Trades

(53:53) Buffett Supports $OXY

(55:50) 1-Year CDs Yielding 5%

About Ted Merz

Ted Merz spent more than 30 years at Bloomberg. In September, he launched Principals Media, a ghostwriting and content firm to help modern business leaders. In 2012, Ted integrated Twitter into the Bloomberg Terminal. He is also passionate about the shift in behavior on Social.

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