Joe Wiesenthal
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1,572 appearances
15 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 26 Jun
Joe Wiesenthal’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then the options started getting more exotic, like zero day options, which you love and so forth.
But now it's like if you could think of something that would resolve in some way, whether it is snowfall in New York City, Tesla deliveries or how long a halftime show is at the Super Bowl, there probably is a way to bet on it.
Yeah, but you really said the key thing here, which is we know there's like a ton of liquidity for like the sports betting, et cetera.
Like that's not the problem that needs to be solved.
It's these other things where in theory, these might be useful instruments for hedging some sort of economic risk.
Maybe not the Taylor Swift one or the halftime show ones, but some of these other ones.
But like in theory, some of these contracts could be useful for hedging.
And so the question is, yeah, but will anyone use them?
And so on this discussion, we really had the pleasure of someone who has done very little media in general and who is right in the heart of trying to essentially solve this chicken and egg problem.
Listen to our conversation with Jeremy Mallitz, the head of prediction markets at Susquehanna International Group.
All right, why don't you tell us, just let's start really simply.
What does the prediction markets desk at Susquehanna do?
It's incredible that you're here.
I know.
Let's talk about, OK, there's some contract out there.
Who is going to win the Texas primary election?
Let's just say.
So there's an exchange, and there's an instrument, and it's either going to end at 100 or 0, et cetera.
Why does this market need market makers?
Why can't it be entirely peer-to-peer such that if all of us in the room just wanted to trade, we make a price amongst each other on an exchange?
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