$MA Mastercard Tape Reports
Per Ticker.id: $MA Mastercard Tape Reports — 72 podcast mentions across 14 podcasts (30 days), latest 2026-08-26 10:00 UTC.
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Nathan Labenz — "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis · RL's a Hell of a Drug: Metagaming, Reward Seeking & Motivated CoT Reasoning – Bronson Schoen, Apollo · 2026-08-26Yes. And of course, narratives are often wrong or ephemeral or go the other direction. And then people like us say, ha, see? So for example, Michael Antonelli tweeted, I want you to take a look at Visa and MasterCard and remember that at one point it was thought crypto was going to disrupt them. Then it was thought that AI would disrupt them. There are absolutely times in the stock market where the collective wisdom makes zero sense. Duh. Of course. Yes. So I understand why people laugh at efficient market theory and say that prices are always right. But as we spoke about last week, the point is not that prices are right at all times. Always. It's just that in real time, it is incredibly difficult, dare I say impossible, to consistently say that prices are always right or always wrong.
Michael Batnick — Animal Spirits Podcast · Are Free Markets Dead? (EP. 479) · 2026-08-26You don't know when people are going to over or underreact. That's the thing. You don't know when investors are going to overreact. And this is the thing with crypto that we talked a couple weeks ago. The sentiment is dead. This feels like a dead asset class. And it took this to get it to like, it's, you don't know when people are going to have that collective, all right, let's do it. Right now is the time to do this. It's funny. Yeah, you're right. Visa and MasterCard both were So they're both breaking out to all-time highs. All-time highs. So the— what was the Citrini piece? Remember they both fell 10, 15% on that? Like that was a great buying opportunity for credit cards.
Ben Carlson — Animal Spirits Podcast · Are Free Markets Dead? (EP. 479) · 2026-08-26Well, the, the, the club, the Hells Angels name, the logo is— people claim this, and I, I think there's a lot of merit to it, that that the Hells Angels brand is one of the most powerful and recognized brands of— in existence. Whether that's true or not, you know, I guess that's up for debate. When we established in the late '70s, we thought we got to establish a trademark board, we've got to protect our trademark. Uh, I was on the board. Uh, a gentleman I do not get along with to this day, uh, Flash was on the board, done a lot for the club, did a lot for the trademark. I'm not going to take that away from Irish, was on the trademark board, you know. You know, Irish was murdered, uh, different individuals. I think there might have been 7 or 8 of us on the initially on the board. We used Limbach, Limbach and Sutton, some very powerful trademark attorneys on the West Coast. They were located up in the Bay Area, and they handled— I may have some of these wrong, but I don't, I don't think so— they handled Levi Strauss. I know that one for sure. Coca-Cola, perhaps Pepsi-Cola, MasterCard. The rest of them I couldn't really remember. They were insignificant to me. And the Hells Angels. So you had these trademark lawyers representing these powerful trademarks, recognizable trademarks, Levi trademark, the MasterCard, whatever it may be. I get a phone call from Mr. Sutton. He says, "George, I'd like to talk to you." And I said, "Well, I'm in Southern California. I got it." He goes, "It's very important you come up here. I want to talk to you." No misunderstandings, I want to tell you something. So, you know, I'm going, this is not going to be good. So I, I go up there. This is back, like I say, in early '80s. Uh, you could fly to San Francisco for $30. There's a plane every 45 minutes, you know, there and then one back. So I jump on a plane, I go up there, and Mr. Sutton says that the other trademark brands have discovered they're also representing the Hells Angels. And he said, they don't want their trademark brushing up against yours because it's not a good image. The Hells Angels don't have a good image.
Shawn Ryan — The Shawn Ryan Show · #333 George Christie - Surviving 40 Years in the Hells Angels · 2026-08-24Kashkari on CBS's Face the Nation. He says while Treasury yields are high relative to recent history, they were meaningfully higher in the '90s. He also expressed concerns that inflation won't cool anytime soon, but stopped short of saying whether he'd call for a rate hike in September. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries met privately with President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner recently to discuss housing, immigration, affordability, and any potential areas of common ground. That's according to the New York Times, which reports those around the president are well aware of the likelihood of a Democratic-led House come November, and they're trying to foster as much of a working relationship as possible before any changes. Jeffries is in line to be Speaker if Democrats win the majority at midterms. New financial disclosures published this weekend show President Trump made more than 1,000 security trades in June, including purchases of Berkshire Hathaway, Vanguard, Visa, and MasterCard. The transactions totaled between $78 and $263 million. But the White House says there aren't any conflicts of interest here because Trump's investments are independently managed. Some of Nvidia's biggest customers have been told now prices of servers containing its artificial intelligence chips are going up. We get more on that from Bloomberg's Ed Kollegi.
Monica Ricks — Bloomberg News Now · Canada Fighting US Tariff 'Attack,' US-Iran 'Economic D-Day,' More · 2026-08-23They include significant purchases of Berkshire Hathaway, Visa, MasterCard, and Cintas. The transactions totaled between $78.1 million and $263.1 million in the filing published by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. The largest transaction was a June 22nd sale of between $5 million and $25 million of shares in a Vanguard exchange-traded funded fund. Trump made more than 21,000 securities trades in 2025, often in bursts tied to market events he created. Ed Kalegi, Bloomberg Radio.
Ed Kalegi — Bloomberg News Now · Canada Counter-Tariffs, Bessent to Detail Iran 'Economic D-Day,' More · 2026-08-23Bloomberg's Wendy Benjaminson says going after China may not work either. It's the main buyer of Iranian oil, but President Trump will want his summit with Xi Jinping to go well next month. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries met privately with President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner recently to discuss housing, immigration, affordability, and any potential areas of common ground. That's according to The New York Times, which reports those around the president are well aware of the likelihood likelihood of a Democratic-led House come November, and they're trying to foster as much of a working relationship as possible before any changes. Jeffries is in line to be Speaker if Democrats win the majority at midterms. New financial disclosures published this weekend show President Trump made more than 1,000 security trades in June, including purchases of Berkshire Hathaway, Vanguard, Visa, and MasterCard. The transactions totaled between $78 and $263 million. But the White House says there aren't any conflicts of interest here because Trump's investments independently managed. Some of Nvidia's biggest customers have been told now prices of servers containing its artificial intelligence chips are going up. We get more on that from Bloomberg's Ed Kollegi.
Monica Ricks — Bloomberg News Now · Canada Escalates US Trade Feud, US-Iran Economic Pressure, More · 2026-08-23They include significant purchases of Berkshire Hathaway, Visa, MasterCard, and Cintas. The transactions totaled between $78.1 million and $263.1 million in the filing published by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. The largest transaction was a June 22nd sale of between $5 million and $25 million of shares in a Vanguard exchange-traded funded fund. Trump made more than 21,000 securities trades in 2025, often in bursts tied to market events he created. Ed Kalegi, Bloomberg Radio.
Nathan Hager — Bloomberg News Now · Canada Counter-Tariffs, Bessent to Detail Iran 'Economic D-Day,' More · 2026-08-23