Born Scrappy
Born Scrappy
Stu Kagan
How Pricing Really Works with Amy Hinton
45 minutes Posted Mar 25, 2026 at 1:00 pm.
Welcome Back, Amy!
How Prices Get Published
Data Hierarchy and Trust
Confirming Trades and Trust
The Manipulation Myth
What Moves Scrap Markets
Fundamentals vs Psychology
TBDs Explained
Are TBDs Selling Blind?
Monthly Price Formation
Buying Against Benchmarks
Transparency and Methodology
Assessments Versus Indexes
Handling Angry Calls
AI and the Next Decade
Getting to Know Amy (A Little More)
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Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I sit down with Amy Hinton, North American Scrap Editor at Fastmarkets. We break down one of the most misunderstood parts of our industry. How prices actually work. If you’ve ever questioned where scrap prices come from, how they’re formed, or whether the market is being “played”… this is the episode for you. Amy pulls back the curtain on how price reporting agencies operate. From sourcing real transaction data to filtering out noise, bias, and market posit...