Oct. 5, 2026

Bilal Little on Leveraged ETFs and AI Agents

Bilal Little on Leveraged ETFs and AI Agents
Bilal Little on Leveraged ETFs and AI Agents
This Time Is Different
Bilal Little on Leveraged ETFs and AI Agents
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Leveraged ETFs have a reputation problem, and AI agents are already slipping past the security checks meant to stop them. Direxion's Bilal Little joins Ricky Mulvey and Malcolm Ethridge to separate the real risks from the misconceptions.

Ricky Mulvey, Malcolm Ethridge, and Bilal Little discuss:

  • International equities trading at a 30-35% discount to US peers.

  • Bilal pushes back on the idea that leveraged ETFs are driving widespread market volatility.

  • An AI agent that lowballed a Facebook Marketplace sale, let a stranger show up unannounced, and left its owner holding a bad review — and what it means that these agents are already slipping past CAPTCHAs and light authentication.

  • Why there's currently no real guardrail layer standing between an AI agent and your inbox, bank account, or social media, and what that gap means for retail investors experimenting with tools like Meta's Muse.

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Hosts: Malcolm Ethridge, Ricky Mulvey

Guest: Bilal Little

Engineer: Heather Horton



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