Alex Frangos

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457 appearances 23 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 17 Sep

Alex Frangos’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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WSJ What’s News · Trump Administration Broadens Corporate DEI Crackdown · 29 Dec 2025 podcast

They're taking in grandma's silver to the silver dealers and

At a market level where people trade these futures contracts, that's been going on as well.

So today we have one of the biggest exchanges where contracts connected to gold and silver get traded.

The CME raised margin requirements on traders, meaning how much money they have to put down in order to trade these contracts.

The money's there in case someone doesn't deliver on one of their contracts.

And they raised the requirement to keep the exchange safer.

And that's caused prices to reverse quite a bit.

So it's a wild ride.

WSJ What’s News · Chips, Juice and Airplanes - Exemptions Confuse as Tariffs Kick In · 7 Aug 2025 podcast

There's a lot left to play for, but the investors seem to be welcoming the bon ami between the big tech companies and Trump.

There's this feeling that at the top level, Trump is throwing out these tariffs, but underneath it, he's making life palatable for everyone.

And so, you know, you see markets not freaking out.

Apple shares were up early this morning after this news.

So it seems right now people are kind of digesting the whole thing.

The dust has definitively not settled.

There was going to be a big tariff on copper, and Chile, one of the world's biggest copper producers, said, hey, maybe just do that on copper products, not raw copper.

He slapped very high tariffs on Brazil.

Brazil makes a lot of orange juice that Americans drink, makes a lot of airplanes that Americans fly in.

convinced that those should be exempted as well.

The EU is in talks to try to carve out spirits so your Negronis can not be extra taxed and things like that.

So there's this baseline or kind of ceiling of tariffs around the world, but underneath it is kind of a Swiss cheese of exemptions and carve outs.

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