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Joe Weisenthal

Executive Editor of News, Bloomberg Digital · 1 appearance on the record.

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Joe Weisenthal co-hosts Bloomberg's premier markets and economics podcast Odd Lots alongside Tracy Alloway, analyzing macroeconomic trends, financial markets, and supply chains. Prior to Bloomberg, he was the executive editor at Business Insider and later co-anchored Bloomberg TV’s market-close program What'd You Miss?.

12statements → 6claims → 3claims resolved → 100%fully supported → 4.08/5average certainty → 2.5/5average debate potential → 69said about them ↓

3 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not yet assessed 2 not checkable as stated how the 6 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 4 assertions · 4 opinions · 2 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Joe argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Weisenthal: FTC Chair Ferguson is keeping Lina Khan's merger guidelines
“And it's interesting because he's keeping Lena Khan's merger guidelines in place.”
Joe Weisenthal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 7:16 Joe Weisenthal on Finance Podcasting, Country Music, and Response to Solana Ad.

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Everything Joe Weisenthal said on TBPN that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Weisenthal: Trading Solana meme coins is not comparable to building railroads
“The premise that like investing in crypto that like investing in meme coins, which is the primary use of Solana is somewhere along the land space travel in the same conversations. Like we built the railroads, we landed on the moon and we trade coins on Solana.…”
Joe Weisenthal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 2:53 Joe Weisenthal on Finance Podcasting, Country Music, and Response to Solana Ad.
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Joe Weisenthal: The anticipated Trump M&A green light has not materialized
“This expectation that the new administration was going to be sort of this, like, at least on the regulatory side, or at least on the deal side, the sort of like libertarian green light, everything is not really panned out.”
Joe Weisenthal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 6:55 Joe Weisenthal on Finance Podcasting, Country Music, and Response to Solana Ad.
Assertion Supported
Weisenthal: FTC Chair Ferguson is keeping Lina Khan's merger guidelines
“And it's interesting because he's keeping Lena Khan's merger guidelines in place.”
Joe Weisenthal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 7:16 Joe Weisenthal on Finance Podcasting, Country Music, and Response to Solana Ad.
Opinion
Weisenthal: Investors mistaken to expect a Bush-era lenient FTC under Ferguson
“He's like, we're not, we take this idea of corporate power as a harm very seriously. And if you think this is going to be sort of like a Bush era FTC, you're mistaken, which I think is really interesting and probably relevant for investors, both in private and…”
Joe Weisenthal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 9:17 Joe Weisenthal on Finance Podcasting, Country Music, and Response to Solana Ad.
Opinion
Weisenthal: The idea that LLMs approach human intelligence is a joke
“I'm simultaneously every day blown away, and I'm also every day like, Oh, this is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. And the idea that this is approaching human intelligence is a joke.”
Joe Weisenthal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 11:21 Joe Weisenthal on Finance Podcasting, Country Music, and Response to Solana Ad.
Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2030
Weisenthal: There will be another SPAC boom in his lifetime
“SPACs have come and gone multiple times in their history, so I would never bet against the return of the SPAC. It might take a while. I think, you know, it's like, maybe even like every 15 or 20 years or whatever, but I am confident that in my lifetime, there …”
Joe Weisenthal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 22:17 Joe Weisenthal on Finance Podcasting, Country Music, and Response to Solana Ad.
Opinion
Joe Weisenthal: Bluesky users are sickos for bad economic news under Trump
“You know, when like the market's down, I post on blue sky because the crowd is like sickos for bad news under the Trump administration.”
Joe Weisenthal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 23:11 Joe Weisenthal on Finance Podcasting, Country Music, and Response to Solana Ad.
Insight
Weisenthal: The US Treasury Market Is Literally a Prediction Market
“The U.S. Treasury market is literally a prediction market because U.S. Treasuries at any point in the curve are the ensemble prediction of what the Fed is expected to do over the course of any given time. So a five-year Treasury is what the next five years of …”
Joe Weisenthal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 24:37 Joe Weisenthal on Finance Podcasting, Country Music, and Response to Solana Ad.
Assertion Supported
Weisenthal: Crypto market peaked on the day of Trump's inaugural ball
“You know, I think, like, the crypto high was literally the day he had that ball.”
Joe Weisenthal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 15:20 Joe Weisenthal on Finance Podcasting, Country Music, and Response to Solana Ad.
Insight
Weisenthal: The jobs report is the gold standard for business climate
“The super bowl is always going to be jobs day because it's a really good high quality survey. If you want to understand, like our business is in a mood to invest and are they feeling good? I mean, there's no better measure than are they actually willing to lik…”
Joe Weisenthal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 16:14 Joe Weisenthal on Finance Podcasting, Country Music, and Response to Solana Ad.
Assertion Supported
Weisenthal: Capital One-Discover deal spread made full post-election round trip
“If you look at that spread on that deal, that's been a complete round trip since the election.”
Joe Weisenthal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 14:56 Joe Weisenthal on Finance Podcasting, Country Music, and Response to Solana Ad.
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Weisenthal: A TV reporter will ask an insane AI-hallucinated question
“Somewhere someday, some reporter you're going to see on TV asks is going to ask an insane question with an insane premise. And it's because someone along the lines, I gave them a list of questions generated from AI.”
Joe Weisenthal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 13:03 Joe Weisenthal on Finance Podcasting, Country Music, and Response to Solana Ad.

The other half of the tape: Joe Weisenthal's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 68 times in 40 episodes on TBPN. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most John Coogan 24Jordi Hays 6Jordan Schneider 1

Statements about Joe Weisenthal, by other people (1)

Assertion Supported
Over 1,000 SpaceX Employees Organize to Negotiate Wealth Management Fees Pre-IPO
“Joe Weisenthal is reporting that on the eve of the IPO, SpaceX employees are organizing more than a thousand current and former SpaceX employees have banded together to negotiate with wealth management firms for better pricing. And access to sophisticated tax-…”
Jordi Hays Jun 2, 2026 ▶ 26:17 Google Raises $80B, Confidential IPO 101, OpenAI Expands Codex | Diet TBPN

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2026 50 mentions in 27 episodes 2 per episode
2025 18 mentions in 13 episodes 1 per episode

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Joe Weisenthal on Finance Podcasting, Country Music, and Response to Solana Ad. Mar 19, 2025 15m
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