Prediction markets that enable you to bet on pretty much everything are everywhere nowadays. But there’s still a big question over whether they can expand to include larger institutional investors like hedge funds. Part of the problem is that a lot of prediction market contracts are illiquid and trading volumes can sometimes be shallow. That’s where trading firm Susquehanna International Group comes in. In this episode, recorded live at New York’s City Winery, we talk to Jeremy Maletz, Susquehan

The dollar is older than the US itself.

One of the great general purpose technologies.

It’s getting colder and colder.

Creating an asset class for bets on anything.

Momentum trumps everything.

Inflation, but also growth.

Some thoughts on the NBA finals and inflation.

Who pays to keep stuff moving in an age of disruptions?

We talk about the commodity supply chain all the time. We talk about the ports and the trucks and the ships and all of that. But there’s another dimension to moving commodities all around the world, which is actually paying for it. Who funds the oil tanker and what happens when that tanker is, say, stuck in the Strait of Hormuz? Commodity finance underpins production, transportation and storage of a wide variety of the things that make the modern world, but you tend to only hear about it when th

A higher real rate regime.