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June 20, 2026

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Odd Lots: How Substack Creators Are Thinking About AI (Podcast)

We closed out our New York live show on May 28 with a panel that featured three of our favorite Substackers: James van Geelen of Citrini Research, Sam Ro, founder of The TKer, and journalist Jasmine Sun. They’ve all been Odd Lots guests before, and we wanted to get them together to discuss how journalists and analysts are supposed to cover this incredibly strange and highly pressurized moment in markets. Not only has AI basically infected every corner of the world, the media included, but there’

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Germany’s Weirdest Debt Market May No Longer Be Safe Haven for Lenders

After storied Austrian motorcycle manufacturer KTM AG presented an insolvency plan to creditors last year, several of them convened a video conference to discuss a counter-proposal. More than 100 parties joined, but none of the usual big corporate lenders were involved. Instead, the group featured a motley crew of backers from tiny German towns, Chinese banks and European pension funds, all with wildly varying knowledge of the case at hand. The call was raucous, according to people briefed on th

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