A $25.9 BILLION BANK RAN ITS EARNINGS CALL WITH AN AI DEEPFAKE OF THE CEO (nobody walked out) SPACEX PRICED AT $135 A SHARE (the raise: $75 billion) CAL-MAINE HELD ITS FIRST EARNINGS CALL IN DECADES (the largest egg producer in the country)
A DIFFERENT CEO TURNED HIS EARNINGS CALL INTO A VODCAST (it drew 2,000 viewers) TWO OF THE RICHEST MEN ALIVE FEUD ABOUT ROCKETS (like it is a group chat) THE SPACEX RAISE IMPLIED A $1.77 TRILLION VALUATION (seventh-biggest company in America)

The Money Circus

Serious about your money. Honest about the circus running it.

Every weekday around midday: a laugh, what the suits actually did, and one story too good not to repeat.

Step right in

ADMISSION: PAID WHETHER YOU WATCH OR NOT

  THE PROGRAM  

Four acts, every weekday.

A short program of the genuinely insane things people did with real money.

EVERY EDITION

You walk away with three things.

  1. POST CARD A LAUGH At least one, out loud, at something a real company put in writing. No. 1
  2. POST CARD THE REAL VERSION What the suits actually did, with the press-release paint scraped off. No. 2
  3. POST CARD A STORY WORTH REPEATING One tale too good to keep to yourself. No. 3

That is the whole arrangement.

FROM RECENT EDITIONS

Every word is true and most of it is ridiculous.

Three clippings from past programs, receipts included.

No. 1QUOTE, ON THE RECORD

“I’m delighted to be wrong about this.”

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, on his prediction that AI would gut white-collar work.

The receipt: Fortune and Reuters, on Altman’s remarks.

No. 2QUOTE, ON THE RECORD

“Kraken has not reviewed or approved the tokens available.”

Kraken, in its own launch announcement, on the 2,500 tokens it added in one day.

The receipt: Kraken’s own launch blog and The Block.

No. 3FROM THE MAIN ACT

They paid to fire, then paid more to unfire. Same desk, same job, bigger bill.

On the companies that cut jobs for AI, then hired the same people back.

The receipt: The Washington Times, on data from Robert Half.

HOUSE RULES

One rule runs the whole show.

We read the jokes off the public record, because nothing we could invent is funnier than what these people file in writing.

No. 1

THE KNIFE POINTS UP

The targets are CEOs, boards, and billionaires. The reader is never the punchline.

No. 2

NO HOMEWORK

No jargon and no charts that need a finance degree. The record, read out loud, with the best parts left in.

THE MANAGEMENT

The Money Circus

THE SHOW GOES UP AT MIDDAY

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Serious about your money. Honest about the circus running it.

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