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The AmplifyME Market Maker Podcast makes finance fun and easy to understand. Hosted by LinkedIn Top Voice Anthony Cheung and trader-turned-founder Piers Curran, each week they break down the biggest market stories and trends shaping the global economy.
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 19
- Latest publication
- Sep 10, 2026
- Audience
- Apple #123 · US
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 6, 2026
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Is Inflation Coming Back? Why Oil, Food Prices & Interest Rates Are Rising (opens the original)
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Oil is back above $100 a barrel, food prices are climbing and central banks are once again facing pressure to raise interest rates. Is the world heading towards a second wave of inflation? In this episode, Anthony Cheung and Piers Curran explain why the latest inflation threat goes far beyond the headline oil price. China is returning to the crude market just as conflict continues to disrupt global energy supplies, while refinery problems are pushing petrol and diesel prices even higher. At the
Why Nvidia Just Paid $12.9 Billion for Hugging Face | The Business of AI (opens the original)
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Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, paying around 86x revenue for one of the most important platforms in open-source AI. In this episode of the Market Maker Podcast, Anthony Cheung and Stephen Barnett break down what Hugging Face actually does, why Nvidia wants it, and how the deal fits into Jensen Huang’s wider strategy to control more of the AI ecosystem. We look at Hugging Face’s journey from a failed chatbot to the “GitHub of AI”, why open-source AI is becoming incre
Can Governments Really Control Financial Markets? | FX Intervention Explained (JPY, CHF, USD) (opens the original)
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Can governments really control financial markets, or can they simply delay the inevitable? Japan has spent nearly $100 billion trying to support the yen, with the US taking the extraordinary step of joining the intervention. But despite the firepower, the forces driving the currency, interest rate differentials, the carry trade and Japan’s economic fundamentals, haven’t simply disappeared. In this episode, Anthony Cheung and Piers Curran explain how FX intervention actually works, why government
Stripe’s $7.5 Billion AI Bet: Why It Just Bought OpenRouter (opens the original)
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Stripe has just made one of the biggest AI acquisitions yet, buying OpenRouter for around $7.5 billion — a company that was valued at just $1.3 billion only months earlier. So what exactly is Stripe buying, and why has OpenRouter become so valuable so quickly? In this episode of the Market Maker Podcast, Anthony Cheung and Stephen Barnett break down OpenRouter’s extraordinary rise, how its platform connects businesses to hundreds of different AI models, and why the economics of AI could increasi
China’s Robot IPO Boom & India’s Biggest IPO Ever Explained (opens the original)
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The global IPO market is roaring back but some of the most interesting action isn’t happening on Wall Street. In this episode of the Market Maker Podcast, Anthony Cheung and Stephen Barnett take a whistle-stop tour of the global IPO boom, from China’s extraordinary robotics race and Hong Kong’s growing pipeline of AI listings to what could become the biggest IPO in India’s history. We break down why Chinese robotics companies are attracting huge investor demand, what embodied AI could mean for t
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