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Quoth the Raven #358 - Eric Balchunas On Bitcoin ETFs, Passive Bid and Market Valuation

Quoth the Raven

Quoth the Raven

Investing, Business, Comedy, Business:investing

4.5979 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Eric Balchunas is a senior ETF analyst at Bloomberg, where he has more than a decade of experience working with ETF data, designing new functions, and writing ETF research for the Bloomberg terminal. He also writes articles, feature stories, and blog posts on ETFs for Bloomberg.com and appears each week on Bloomberg TV and Radio to discuss ETFs. These podcasts, posted here, are now all on a slight delay and are taken from my near-daily blog, Fringe Finance. As of right now I have no sponsors, so the best way to show support is just to listen/read or subscribe to my blog: http://quoththeraven.substack.com  You can also still contribute a one time or recurring donation to the podcast via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/QTRResearch All podcast content is subject to this disclaimer, which you should read slowly, multiple times. Thank you all for your continued support over the years. I stand on the shoulders of the people who listen to and/or enjoy my content and I never lose sight of that. QTR’s Disclaimer: Please read my full legal disclaimer on my About page here. This post represents my opinions only. In addition, please understand I am an idiot and often get things wrong and lose money. I may own or transact in any names mentioned in this piece at any time without warning. Contributor posts and aggregated posts have been hand selected by me, have not been fact checked and are the opinions of their authors. They are either submitted to QTR by their author, reprinted under a Creative Commons license with my best effort to uphold what the license asks, or with the permission of the author. This is not a recommendation to buy or sell any stocks or securities, just my opinions. I often lose money on positions I trade/invest in. I may add any name mentioned in this article and sell any name mentioned in this piece at any time, without further warning. None of this is a solicitation to buy or sell securities. I may or may not own names I write about and are watching. Sometimes I’m bullish without owning things, sometimes I’m bearish and do own things. Just assume my positions could be exactly the opposite of what you think they are just in case. If I’m long I could quickly be short and vice versa. I won’t update my positions. All positions can change immediately as soon as I publish this, with or without notice and at any point I can be long, short or neutral on any position. You are on your own. Do not make decisions based on my blog or what my guests say. Nothing is fact checked. I exist on the fringe. Assume any and all numbers in this piece are wrong and make sure you check them yourself. The publisher does not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the information provided in this page. These are not the opinions of any of my employers, partners, or associates. I did my best to be honest about my disclosures but can’t guarantee I am right; I write these posts after a couple beers sometimes. I edit after my posts are published because I’m impatient and lazy, so if you see a typo, check back in a half hour. Also, I just straight up get shit wrong a lot. I mention it twice because it’s that important.

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0:00.0

All right. I have very few friends in the mainstream financial media that work for, you know,

0:08.4

outlets like Bloomberg and CNBC. I've cast most of them aside. However, one person has emerged,

0:13.8

and by the way, I don't even know if I ever told you this, but your work came on the recommendation

0:18.2

of somebody that I take very seriously who will remain nameless,

0:22.6

but they said, you should follow Eric Balchunas from Bloomberg some years ago. And I did. I started

0:27.7

following you on Twitter. And it's been exceptionally informative. You work for Bloomberg. You're an

0:34.1

expert in all things, exchange traded funds. And you put up a post the other day

0:41.0

that piqued my curiosity. So I thought it would be cool to ask you about it. And then also,

0:48.0

while I have you, get the state of the union as it relates to ETFs in the passive bid whether or not you see

0:55.9

any potential

0:58.1

areas for concern

0:59.9

in the market now and just get

1:02.0

your general overall take. So first

1:04.0

off, how the hell are you? You're a South Philly guy, which

1:06.1

you know.

1:08.2

Yeah, no, look, there's not

1:09.8

I mean, I don't even know how many people in Philly could talk ETF. So you're like one of like a handful of people. So that's nice that we both can enjoy Philly and ETFs. But yeah, I live in South Philly. I'm actually the border of Center City, South Philly. But as you know, Philly has like neighbors. I know where you are. Yeah. So I'm kind of

1:29.8

into the Queens Village area. And it's I told people it's like two blocks from where like rocky jog

1:36.9

through Italian market. Like it's kind of right around there. Yeah. So yeah, I love it down there. I'm in

1:42.5

Delaware today. We have a Delaware office.

2:05.1

It's like 40 minutes from Philly. And so I come in here to badge in and try to work out of the office sometimes. So that's where I am today. But normally, I'd be home at Philly, working from home. And you are, you live in South Philly for the people who incorrectly know what the South Philly border is. There's a lot of people that think South Philly starts after South Street, but it does not. South Philly starts after Washington.

2:06.6

Absolutely.

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