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The Wall Street Skinny

by Kristen and Jen

Every week, Kristen and Jen (best friends since the second grade) have smart, funny. and honest conversations about investing, tech, and business. From Princeton and Brown to Morgan Stanley, as former investment bankers turned entrepreneurs and podcasters, Kristen and Jen take the most complex deals, market moves, and tech breakthroughs and distill them into stories you care about. From conversations with the biggest names in investing to deep dives people can’t stop sharing --- not to mention the occasional HBO Industry red carpet --- this is the show Wall Street is obsessed with.

Latest episodes

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Is Anthropic's $2 Trillion IPO in Jeopardy? What We Learned from Leaked IPO Prospectus

Go to groundnews.com/skinny for a better way to stay informed. Subscribe through our link for 40% off unlimited access to world-wide coverage. We're back at the intersec

Oct 1
46 min

How Nvidia's Recent Acquisition Changes the AI Game Feat. Morgan Stanley's Head of US Thematic Research

Go to groundnews.com/skinny for a better way to stay informed. Subscribe through our link for 40% off unlimited access to world-wide coverage. NVIDIA just agreed to buy

Sep 27
59 min

Why Stocks Could Drop 10% Before Year-End: feat. Wellington Macro Strategist Mike Medeiros

Go to www.groundnews.com/skinny for a better way to stay informed. Subscribe through our link for 40% off unlimited access to world-wide coverage. The first Fed rate hik

Sep 18
36 min

I got to ask Scott Bessent ONE QUESTION. His answer shocked me.

Everyone in the financial media is telling you the same story: Scott Bessent's surprise Treasury buyback announcement is a thumb on the scale of the bond market, and it's

Sep 6
57 min

Is a Private Credit scandal brewing behind the LA Lakers Sale?

The LA Lakers --- a prestigious basketball franchise that didn't change hands for 46 years --- just sold twice in ten months, the second time for $2.5 billion more than t

Aug 19
36 min

OpenAI's Lawyer: How Big Tech is Winning the AI Race in the Courts

We got to sit down with John Quinn — the "Quinn" of Quinn Emanuel — one of the most powerful litigators in the world, and the man whose firm is defending OpenAI right now

Aug 12
51 min

SpaceX: Revisiting the IPO and What Comes Next

After the largest IPO in history, only about 5% of SpaceX — roughly $83 billion of the $1.75 trillion — is actually free to trade. Insiders are locked up, the banks that

Aug 5
29 min

The Biggest Hedge Fund Blow-Up of 2026 EXPLAINED: Situational Awareness

What took Situational Awareness from a $45bn hedge fund down to a $10bn hedge fund in less than a month? Two years ago Leopold Aschenbrenner was a researcher at OpenAI wh

Jul 31
29 min

What Just Happened to AI Stocks??

*Note: This episode was recorded before news broke of Situational Awareness' unwind, which gives us much better insight into the pace and magnitude of the move in the Kor

Jul 30
1 h 00 min

Why Jamie Dimon Won't Buy Stocks OR Bonds Right Now

Short interest in the S&P 500 is sitting near its highest level since 2010, Jamie Dimon says he won't touch US stocks or Treasuries at these prices, and SpaceX is the nin

Jul 24
16 min

Ex-Morgan Stanley Bankers' "Yesteryear" HOT TAKES: Trad Wives vs. Career Women

We're talking about the buzziest --- and most controversial --- book of the summer: "Yesteryear" by Caro Claire Burke. It poses a question no one's brave enough to answer

Jul 18
1 h 14 min

How AI is Repeating the Exact Mistake that Bankrupted Enron | 50-Year Power Insider

With hyperscalers like Meta, Google, Amazon and SpaceXAI burning through cash, we decided to answer the question underneath all of it: what is this money actually buying?

Jul 16
47 min

Mindy Kaling's "Not Suitable for Work": Our Hot Takes on the Show About Investment Banking in NYC We've Been Waiting For

Send us Fan Mail Mindy Kaling's new sitcom "Not Suitable for Work" just dropped, and we have thoughts. We are two Wall Street veterans breaking down everything the show g

Jun 14
1 h 12 min

How Google Front-Ran SpaceX with a Record Breaking $85 Billion Equity Raise

Send us Fan Mail While everyone's been fixated on the SpaceX IPO, Google quietly pulled off the largest equity offering in history—roughly $85 billion—and basically front

Jun 11
23 min

Spotify Executive: How to Become a $100B Company When Everyone Expects Your Product Free

Send us Fan Mail We've done the finance of Industry, the finance of Succession, the finance of Belle Burden's Strangers — but we've never done the finance of CREATORS. So

Jun 10
41 min

SpaceX Just Rewrote the Rules of the Stock Market (And Most People Had No Idea)

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we dig into one of the biggest market questions hiding behind the hype around mega IPOs: what happens to passive index investors when co

Jun 6
31 min

Ex-Morgan Stanley Bankers: "Strangers" How Much Belle Burden's Husband Was Actually Earning

Send us Fan Mail No one is talking about the insane thing that's happened to Big Law partner compensation over the past decade — and how it stacks up against Wall Street.

Jun 3
42 min

Ex-Morgan Stanley Bankers: "Strangers" by Belle Burden Part 1 | Our Initial HOT TAKES

Send us Fan Mail Two weeks ago, one of the most powerful women on Wall Street asked us to weigh in on Belle Burden's bombshell memoir: "Strangers". As two women who've li

May 27
51 min

Hedge Funds Want the Equity in Your Home, feat. Tacora Capital Founder Keri Findley

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we dig into the state of the American consumer's balance sheet, which on paper isn't broke but is increasingly "boxed in." We walk throug

May 26
40 min

$53 Billion Hedge Fund Chief Strategist: The Next Market Shock Is Hiding in Plain Sight

Send us Fan Mail We sat down with Elizabeth Burton, the new Chief Strategist at Fortress, one of the world’s biggest and most respected hedge funds, to ask what actually

May 14
55 min

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A curated, balanced selection of Apple Podcasts reviews.

I’ve been listening to Wall Street skinny for awhile now and it’s become one of my favorite podcasts - a must listen. I am an attorney working in the finance industry without much finance background and I feel that Kristen and Jen have helped me educate myself on areas of finance outside my specific practice area. Their insights are great, content is interesting and they make it accessible.

ameliamontgo · Jun 2026

As a retired finance executive, I have Bloomberg, WSJ, FT, and Kristen and Jen in my rotation for keeping up on market chatter. They have quality guests and ask the right questions. Their Industry recaps are icing on the cake.

Fencer1930 · Jan 2026

Put macrovoices down for a week snd give these ladies a try. Great break downs on current events, deals, even finance shows! They will help you develop a view regarding markets, and they introduce you the culture of finance. This is important if your trying to work in the industry in any way. Gotta talk the talk. Anyway one of these girls was in sales and trading snd the other was in IB, So you get a whole view of Wall Street. 10/10. Plus they’re easy on the eyes which doesn’t matter but just a fun plus.

aronatthemovies · Dec 2025

As someone considering on going into finance, I learned a lot by listening to this podcast about the industry and what I might be getting myself into in the future and how I should prepare for it. The episode about the live 2008 recession was fascinating and it provides a different perspective about what happened from what you generally see on the news. And I really like that aspect of the podcast.

Weizhi Chen · Jul 2025

The show is at its best when you share insights only people with your experience could offer, rather than platitudes or half-baked opinions on topics you haven't researched. You lean on your professional backgrounds as proof of credibility in your fields, and that's a fair standard, so apply it consistently. When you make flat claims about capitalism versus socialism or horseshoe theory, you're stepping into political science, political philosophy, and history, disciplines with scholarly traditions that predate modern finance. Neither of you cite training in them, and the takes come across as glib rather than informed. Honestly, it starts to look like a textbook Dunning-Kruger case: political science may be the field where the people who've engaged with it least are the most sure they've got it figured out. Either engage with the literature or leave those asides out.

Travis Tracy · Oct 2026

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