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 stories in business and tech and distill them into what actually matters for you.
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.
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Burry Left in a Hurry! The Loophole GameStop Could Use to Pull Off Buying eBay (10x its Size)
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Michael Burry just dumped all his GameStop shares. eBay reportedly deactivated Ryan Cohen's account. And the $56 billion "takeover" GameStop pitched on C
May 8 24 min
GameStop Just Bid $56 Billion for eBay. What is ACTUALLY Going On????
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🚨 EMERGENCY EPISODE: GameStop just made an unsolicited $56 billion bid for eBay, and the math is NOT mathing. After watching CEO Ryan Cohen's bizarre liv
May 5 17 min
Every New Fed Chair Has Crashed the Market. A New One is Coming May 15th
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Jerome Powell's term as Fed Chair ends May 15th, and his likely successor Kevin Warsh is poised to walk into the most fractured Fed since 1992. In this e
Apr 30 48 min
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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
When I started my MBA, I had no idea I’d be drawn to a career in finance. Coming from a non-finance background, I was overwhelmed by the number of potential career paths and the jargon-heavy nature of the field. That changed the moment I discovered The Wall Street Skinny.
Kristen and Jen break down complex topics in a way that’s both insightful and approachable. Thanks to their podcast, I’ve gained a solid understanding of different roles across finance, current trends, and how to navigate the industry. But more than that, their discussions have directly helped me stand out — in interviews, in class, and in conversations with professionals.
It’s more than just a podcast — it’s a mentor, a roadmap, and a confidence boost all in one. If you’re even remotely curious about finance, this should be your first stop.
zbshwufuv · Jul 2025
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