Odd Lots

Mon, 28 Apr 2025

When stocks are plunging in a typical market environment, people reach for safe haven assets like US...

Sat, 26 Apr 2025

Over the last few years, retail traders have gotten into options in a major way. Selling puts, buyin...

Fri, 25 Apr 2025

If you look at most of the official hard data right now, there still isn't much evidence of a sharp ...

Thu, 24 Apr 2025

For the most part, Americans haven't felt much pain yet from the tariffs that Donald Trump introduce...

Wed, 23 Apr 2025

When it comes to measuring economic pain, the cost of a humble breakfast sandwich might not be top o...

Wed, 23 Apr 2025

One of the stated goals for the current trade war is to build more industrial capacity in the United...

Mon, 21 Apr 2025

Martin Wolf has been called one of the world's most important economics commentators, and has for de...

Sun, 20 Apr 2025

Here's Why is Bloomberg’s short explainer podcast, where we take one big news story and break ...

Sat, 19 Apr 2025

Last year, it was announced that the US Department of Defense had failed an audit for its seventh st...

Fri, 18 Apr 2025

US Treasuries are the most important market in the world. With some $29 trillion outstanding, they c...

Thu, 17 Apr 2025

For years and years now, there has been one winning trade: Go long the US versus the rest of the wor...

Tue, 15 Apr 2025

Every time there is tension between the US and China, there are stories about China threatening to w...

Mon, 14 Apr 2025

One of the ironies of the tariffs is that, while ostensibly the goal is to reshore US manufacturing,...

Sun, 13 Apr 2025

Check out the new Stock Movers Podcast from Bloomberg. Subscribe for five-minute episodes on today's...

Sat, 12 Apr 2025

In a big bull market, people will overlook a lot. They'll suspend their disbelief. They'll buy into ...

Fri, 11 Apr 2025

On Wednesday, President Trump put a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs for every country except Chin...

Thu, 10 Apr 2025

On Wednesday, Trump pulled back from the brink on most of the reciprocal tariffs announced on April ...

Wed, 09 Apr 2025

How should we make sense of the Trump tariffs? They've been terrible for the stock market, obviously...

Tue, 08 Apr 2025

Amidst Trump's dramatic tariff moves, trade in North America remains uncertain. The USMCA hasn't bee...

Mon, 07 Apr 2025

It was just last Wednesday that President Trump announced his new tariff schedule with the rest of t...

Mon, 07 Apr 2025

Anything crypto-related is frequently greeted with a high degree of skepticism. Within that, one of ...

Sat, 05 Apr 2025

He needs no introduction: When trade is in the news, we speak with Brad Setser of the Council on For...

Fri, 04 Apr 2025

On Wednesday, President Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs against almost every country in the world. T...

Thu, 03 Apr 2025

The 2008 financial crisis is fading into history, but the risks of something big happening again rem...

Tue, 01 Apr 2025

Last month, Donald Trump fired the Federal Trade Commission's two Democratic commissioners. They hav...

Mon, 31 Mar 2025

Legendary media mogul Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker, is done with the US. He’s leaving Ne...

Fri, 28 Mar 2025

One of the biggest questions hanging over the market right now is whether or not the seemingly unlim...

Thu, 27 Mar 2025

Brad Jacobs has made a fortune in his career buying and building big logistics companies, like Unite...

Mon, 24 Mar 2025

President Trump wants higher tariffs, and he also wants more industrial production in the United Sta...

Fri, 21 Mar 2025

Last week, the US market sold off sharply. The S&P 500 fell as much as 3.6% on Monday alone, ent...

Thu, 20 Mar 2025

We finally did it. We finally did an episode on the Jones Act. For years on the podcast, we've been ...

Mon, 17 Mar 2025

When Donald Trump won in November, one of the things that Wall Street was excited about was an expec...

Fri, 14 Mar 2025

Prediction markets are everywhere nowadays. You can go online and bet on political outcomes, or the ...

Thu, 13 Mar 2025

Housing affordability remains one of the single greatest sources of economic stress. Even if inflati...

Tue, 11 Mar 2025

Markets have been selling off, with shares of tech companies like Nvidia down almost 20% so far this...

Mon, 10 Mar 2025

You’ve heard about Chinese EVs. You’ve heard about Chinese batteries and solar panels. A...

Sat, 08 Mar 2025

One of the first moves made by the Trump administration was to change the nature of grants made by t...

Fri, 07 Mar 2025

This week was a busy one and some of the most interesting things that happened came out of Europe, w...

Thu, 06 Mar 2025

The 1970s were a pretty eventful time in markets. There was high inflation, the end of the gold stan...

Mon, 03 Mar 2025

Almost whichever way you measure it, the US has a lot of debt. And, with the Trump administration re...

Fri, 28 Feb 2025

A week from today we will get the February jobs report and there are growing concerns that the US la...

Thu, 27 Feb 2025

The first month of the Trump administration has been noisy and novel by basically any measure. But p...

Tue, 25 Feb 2025

The so-called “Mar-a-Lago Accord” has suddenly become a hot topic on Wall Street, with s...

Mon, 24 Feb 2025

People love listening to stories about making it big, and there are no shortage of success stories i...

Fri, 21 Feb 2025

Hedge funds are notorious for making big and sometimes risky trades. Banks, meanwhile, are supposed ...

Thu, 20 Feb 2025

The US is a dominant force in a number of important industries, but it's been lagging behind in one ...

Mon, 17 Feb 2025

For a long time, the world of derivatives trading was a niche thing, largely occupied by professiona...

Fri, 14 Feb 2025

The price of gold is basically at record highs. But what is it about gold that people love so much? ...

Thu, 13 Feb 2025

We all know that the Federal Reserve tries to stabilize the economy by raising or cutting interest r...

Mon, 10 Feb 2025

The Trump administration has come into office with big ambitions to lower the size of the US deficit...

Fri, 07 Feb 2025

There's a pretty widespread recognition that the EU is facing a bunch of economic challenges right n...

Thu, 06 Feb 2025

This week, we saw shares of software maker Palantir soar after reporting earnings and describing dem...

Wed, 05 Feb 2025

Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have gained access to a unit within the...

Mon, 03 Feb 2025

Over the weekend, President Trump announced that he was following through with his plan for aggressi...

Mon, 03 Feb 2025

Marko Kolanovic was one of the biggest names in markets, earning the nickname 'Gandalf' for some eer...

Fri, 31 Jan 2025

Everyone knows by now that MicroStrategy looks a lot like a giant Bitcoin ETF. Its founder, Michael ...

Thu, 30 Jan 2025

One of the primary drivers of elevated inflation — and the high cost of living in general &mda...

Tue, 28 Jan 2025

On Monday, the stock market tanked, seemingly in reaction to the emergence of DeepSeek, an open sour...

Mon, 27 Jan 2025

The run-up in Big Tech stocks and all the hype over AI has put a bunch of investors on "bubble watch...

Fri, 24 Jan 2025

There's a lot of talk right now about concentration risk in US equities. For instance, the top 10 st...

Thu, 23 Jan 2025

In theory, all of this AI spending has to deliver some kind of return. Companies (or other end users...

Wed, 22 Jan 2025

Tariffs, crypto, deregulation, tax cuts, protectionism, are just some of the things back on the tabl...

Mon, 20 Jan 2025

We all know that the new Trump administration is likely to be more friendly to the crypto industry t...

Fri, 17 Jan 2025

Odd Lots has been exploring the history of the eurodollar market in a special three-part series host...

Thu, 16 Jan 2025

In this special three-part series, Odd Lots is exploring the history of the eurodollar market. By th...

Wed, 15 Jan 2025

In this special three-part series, Odd Lots is exploring the history of the eurodollar market. As we...

Tue, 14 Jan 2025

At more than $10 trillion outstanding, the eurodollar market is one of the biggest forms of shadow b...

Mon, 13 Jan 2025

Regardless of your political ideology, it's easy to agree that government should work well; that it ...

Sun, 12 Jan 2025

In the 1950s, a businessman, looking for a new way to settle his lunch tab, sparked a payments revol...

Fri, 10 Jan 2025

One of the biggest stories in markets right now is the huge selloff in government bonds. And we're n...

Thu, 09 Jan 2025

Utilities in the US have a couple big jobs to do. On the one hand, they need to deliver affordable a...

Mon, 06 Jan 2025

If you look at various surveys, Americans feel grim about the state of the economy. But even outside...

Fri, 03 Jan 2025

In the US right now, there is a lot of talk about a so-called "nuclear revival." But it remains to b...

Thu, 02 Jan 2025

As is becoming something of an annual tradition here, we recently asked Odd Lots listeners to send i...

Mon, 30 Dec 2024

As 2024 comes to an end, Tracy and Joe once again look back at the year that was in Odd Lots. On thi...

Fri, 27 Dec 2024

Back in November, we released our series called Beak Capitalism, which took a look at the entire US ...

Thu, 26 Dec 2024

The Biden administration made energy and climate a centerpiece of its administration, most notably t...

Mon, 23 Dec 2024

Last week, the Federal Reserve cut benchmark rates by 25 basis points, but simultaneously signaled a...

Fri, 20 Dec 2024

On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by 25 basis points as expected. But it also rai...

Thu, 19 Dec 2024

The world of startup investing has undergone massive transformations amid the AI boom, changing capi...

Mon, 16 Dec 2024

One of the minor culture wars in America has to do with electric stoves. To some, they're more energ...

Fri, 13 Dec 2024

Geothermal is a promising technology to provide clean, low-cost, baseload power to the electricity g...

Thu, 12 Dec 2024

You can do a lot of things with the click of a button nowadays. You can get insurance, open a bank a...

Mon, 09 Dec 2024

AI software and the hardware that enables it have been hugely popular investments this year. But the...

Fri, 06 Dec 2024

In the 2010s, we saw an incredible boom in the venture capital space, fueled in part by cheap capita...

Thu, 05 Dec 2024

For years, investors have relied on the classic 60/40 portfolio of stocks and bonds. The idea behind...

Mon, 02 Dec 2024

It's trite to say that there is a high degree of uncertainty right now, for macro forecasters and in...

Fri, 29 Nov 2024

The election of Donald Trump, with his promise of more tariffs and a much tighter stance on immigrat...

Thu, 28 Nov 2024

When it comes to credit investing (or really any investing), there's an analytic art in deciding the...

Mon, 25 Nov 2024

In the Zirp era of the mid-2010s, credit markets were booming and investors were clamoring for anyth...

Fri, 22 Nov 2024

For years, the Harvard Endowment has easily been the largest endowment of any university. But as of ...

Thu, 21 Nov 2024

How did China become the economic behemoth that it is today? One pivotal moment was, obviously, it's...

Mon, 18 Nov 2024

After his victory, Donald Trump announced that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would be leading up a n...

Sun, 17 Nov 2024

In the final episode of our special three-part series exploring the US economy through the chicken i...

Sat, 16 Nov 2024

The Odd Lots team is analyzing the US economy through the lens of chicken. In this second episode of...

Fri, 15 Nov 2024

Everybody loves chicken. And, it turns out, that this humble bird can tell us quite a lot about the ...

Thu, 14 Nov 2024

Last week the Federal Reserve opted to cut interest rates by 25 basis points, which was what the mar...

Wed, 13 Nov 2024

In this limited series, Odd Lots explains some of the thorniest issues facing the US economy through...

Mon, 11 Nov 2024

Over the last roughly 15 years, we've seen a migration of certain types of risks outside of regulate...

Fri, 08 Nov 2024

There was a a point in time when Twitter used to be good for breaking news. Social media outlets lik...

Thu, 07 Nov 2024

The US election is over and Donald Trump has won a second term as president. Stocks have rallied on ...

Tue, 05 Nov 2024

It's Election Day in the US, so there's no need for any real explanation of what's at stake. Last ni...

Mon, 04 Nov 2024

Be in the know this election with Bloomberg Podcasts. Follow Bloomberg News Now for up-to-the minute...

Mon, 04 Nov 2024

The Biden administration has overseen a revival of so-called industrial policy in a way that we have...

Fri, 01 Nov 2024

There's something of a uranium cult out there: the investors and traders who believe that nuclear is...

Fri, 01 Nov 2024

China is making steady progress in its quest to dominate key industries of the future, despite years...

Thu, 31 Oct 2024

In 2015, China identified several key industries of the future for which it aimed to compete at the ...

Mon, 28 Oct 2024

Florida has been struck by two big hurricanes this year, setting off a wave of damage and, of course...

Sun, 27 Oct 2024

When sports, business and culture collide, there’s often a deal to be made. Join Alex Rodriguez an...

Fri, 25 Oct 2024

Shares of Boeing, America's biggest aerospace manufacturer, have plummeted 40% so far this year. The...

Thu, 24 Oct 2024

By now, everyone knows that private credit is a hot market. What's less known is that banks want in ...

Mon, 21 Oct 2024

On September 18, the Federal Reserve kicked off the cutting cycle by reducing overnight rates by 50 ...

Fri, 18 Oct 2024

For decades, investors have been told that diversifying is a good thing. You should hold a basket of...

Thu, 17 Oct 2024

In September, Chinese policymakers shocked the markets by unveiling a set of stimulus measures desig...

Mon, 14 Oct 2024

Big tech stocks have had an enormous impact on the stock market, with Magnificent 7 companies like A...

Sun, 13 Oct 2024

What if your contracts could be a roadmap to running your business – the first step in managing yo...

Fri, 11 Oct 2024

In 2022 and 2023, the Federal Reserve basically had one focus: defeating inflation. That's now chang...

Thu, 10 Oct 2024

In recent years, we've seen the emergence of cities whose main industry is that they're a great plac...

Mon, 07 Oct 2024

Multi-strategy hedge funds are still all the rage on Wall Street, but what does it actually mean to ...

Fri, 04 Oct 2024

The US is in the midst of a big effort to bring more semiconductor manufacturing onshore. Intel is t...

Thu, 03 Oct 2024

In 2017, Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which may be better known as the Trump tax cuts....

Mon, 30 Sep 2024

Earlier this month, we got the surprising headline that the shuttered nuclear reactor at Three Mile ...

Fri, 27 Sep 2024

Look out. Supply chains are back in the news. As soon as next week, workers at all of the ports on t...

Thu, 26 Sep 2024

Right now, industrial policy is back in vogue in the US. The administration is making an effort at r...

Mon, 23 Sep 2024

These days if you talk to people about the stock market, they might talk to you about the effect of ...

Fri, 20 Sep 2024

The Future Proof Festival takes place right on the beach in Huntington Beach, California. Thousands ...

Thu, 19 Sep 2024

This week, the Fed cut benchmark rates by 50 basis points. Lower financing costs should be a relief ...

Wed, 18 Sep 2024

It’s Fed Day, and while everyone expects the central bank to cut benchmark interest rates, the key...

Mon, 16 Sep 2024

15 years ago was a pivotal moment for financial media. On the one hand, we were in the midst of a hu...

Sun, 15 Sep 2024

Financial institutions have been a leading target for cyber crime since the dawn of the internet. Bu...

Fri, 13 Sep 2024

This week, former European Central Bank President and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi published ...

Thu, 12 Sep 2024

One of the big buzzwords over the last year or so has been "overcapacity." There's a constant line o...

Mon, 09 Sep 2024

One of the rare areas of bipartisan consensus in the US right now, is on the need to change our trad...

Fri, 06 Sep 2024

Pretty much since the moment that cryptocurrencies came into existence, there's been a chorus of ske...

Thu, 05 Sep 2024

One of the problems in investing or trading is that — to use a common disclaimer — past results ...

Mon, 02 Sep 2024

There's been a lot of talk about private credit in recent years. The market has exploded in size, an...

Fri, 30 Aug 2024

Last week at Jackson Hole, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered a short and powerful speech...

Thu, 29 Aug 2024

Remember August 5th? That was the day that markets around the world plunged in historic fashion and ...

Wed, 28 Aug 2024

When the Treasury market broke in March 2020, the Federal Reserve intervened in extraordinary fashio...

Tue, 27 Aug 2024

At Jackson Hole, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell gave a clear signal that the rate cut cycle is likely to...

Mon, 26 Aug 2024

This year’s Economic Symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming marked a big change for US monetary policy...

Fri, 23 Aug 2024

Every year, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City hosts an economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyo...

Thu, 22 Aug 2024

Synthetic risk transfers, in which banks purchase insurance-like protection on some of their loans, ...

Mon, 19 Aug 2024

Political prediction markets — where traders can make bets on election outcomes — have been arou...

Fri, 16 Aug 2024

The Federal Reserve appears to be ready to pivot into rate cutting mode. Inflation has come down sig...

Thu, 15 Aug 2024

The past few years have thrown up a number of potential weaknesses in the American economy. There've...

Mon, 12 Aug 2024

When it comes to financing the US government's borrowing needs, the Treasury Department has some dis...

Fri, 09 Aug 2024

Hasbro has been making toys for decades, including many classic favorites like G.I. Joe and My Littl...

Thu, 08 Aug 2024

There's a lot of hype around generative AI and many people have interfaced with ChatGPT, Claude, or ...

Tue, 06 Aug 2024

The S&P 500 has plunged more than 5% over the past couple of trading days. The Nasdaq 100 is dow...

Mon, 05 Aug 2024

The Nasdaq is now in correction territory and the S&P 500 is down more than 2% so far this month...

Fri, 02 Aug 2024

This week, the Federal Reserve opted to keep interest rates unchanged while suggesting that it could...

Thu, 01 Aug 2024

When it comes to chips for artificial intelligence, obviously the name that automatically comes to m...

Mon, 29 Jul 2024

Vapes like Elf bars seem to be everywhere now. Meanwhile, Zyn nicotine pouches have become a huge se...

Fri, 26 Jul 2024

We've all seen headlines about the multi-million dollar properties being sold in Miami. Right now, t...

Thu, 25 Jul 2024

Multi-strategy hedge funds, also known as "pod shops," have become the hottest ticket on Wall Street...

Mon, 22 Jul 2024

There are several sources of tension right now between the US and China. Pure trade anxiety is a big...

Fri, 19 Jul 2024

When people talk about the special role that the US dollar plays in the global economy, that's often...

Thu, 18 Jul 2024

According to numerous estimates, the US is massively short of housing. Zillow, for instance, says Am...

Mon, 15 Jul 2024

One of the rare areas of bipartisan consensus in the US right now is taking a tough line on China. W...

Fri, 12 Jul 2024

James van Geelen, founder of Citrini Research, scored big when he made his weight loss drug-related ...

Thu, 11 Jul 2024

Joseph Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize-winning economist known for his groundbreaking work on information ...

Mon, 08 Jul 2024

Modern Monetary Theory has gained prominence over the last several years by offering an alternative ...

Fri, 05 Jul 2024

Lumber prices have tumbled dramatically in recent weeks, with benchmark futures falling about 20% in...

Thu, 04 Jul 2024

There aren't many advanced manufacturing success stories in Latin America. And globally, there aren'...

Tue, 02 Jul 2024

Brad Jacobs has made a career of starting, consolidating, and growing whole industries. He did a tru...

Mon, 01 Jul 2024

Does it feel to you like society has gone crazy? Well, you're not alone. There's a general view that...

Fri, 28 Jun 2024

Neil Dutta, the top economist over at Renaissance Macro, has generally been sunny and optimistic abo...

Thu, 27 Jun 2024

From cars to toys to clothes, we're just used to seeing the label "Made In China" on all sorts of th...

Mon, 24 Jun 2024

The stock market has had a torrid run in 2024 despite the fact that interest rate cuts haven't mater...

Fri, 21 Jun 2024

Everyone knows that the AI boom is built upon the voracious consumption of chips (largely sold by Nv...

Thu, 20 Jun 2024

Virtually everyone, across the ideological spectrum, has the view right now that it's too hard to bu...

Tue, 18 Jun 2024

Throughout history, financial markets have struggled with the issue of borders. Borders create frict...

Mon, 17 Jun 2024

For much of this year, the S&P 500 has marched steadily higher while measures of stock market vo...

Fri, 14 Jun 2024

A few lucky people have made generational wealth trading the ups and downs of the crypto market. And...

Thu, 13 Jun 2024

There's been a huge change in the market for nickel, which goes into everything from electric vehicl...

Wed, 12 Jun 2024

The company that Elon Musk is most known for, obviously, is Tesla. It's been extraordinarily success...

Mon, 10 Jun 2024

The rise of GLP-1 drugs, like Ozempic, is a potentially existential threat to the makers of salty, s...

Fri, 07 Jun 2024

Kyla Scanlon has a great way of identifying the economic vibes, building up a massive TikTok followi...

Thu, 06 Jun 2024

Last year was a bad one for the US wind power industry, with lots of cancelled projects, writedowns,...

Mon, 03 Jun 2024

What's the price of a hamburger? Well, it depends. Are you making the purchase on the spot? Did you ...

Fri, 31 May 2024

Over the past two weeks, two New York City office buildings have become major talking points in the ...

Thu, 30 May 2024

The modern electricity grid is a weird thing. The delivery of electricity is a natural monopoly, for...

Wed, 29 May 2024

The cost of solar has been plunging for years. Everyday there's a new headline about growing install...

Mon, 27 May 2024

The gambling industry in the US has exploded in recent years, and suffused every aspect of sports co...

Fri, 24 May 2024

Remember GameStop? The poster-child for 2021's memestock mania recently surged almost 5x in a matter...

Thu, 23 May 2024

The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission have taken an invigorated approach to ant...

Tue, 21 May 2024

We’re taking The Big Take to Asia. Each week, Bloomberg’s Oanh Ha tells a story from the home of...

Mon, 20 May 2024

Multi-strategy hedge funds are all the rage right now. But there's also a lot of confusion about wha...

Fri, 17 May 2024

Copper has long been touted as a big winner from the world's drive towards electrification. All thos...

Thu, 16 May 2024

Pierre Andurand made his name trading oil and other energy-related assets, but wild swings in the pr...

Mon, 13 May 2024

This week, we'll get fresh inflation data in the US, which will inevitably feed into the Federal Res...

Fri, 10 May 2024

There's a lot going on in currency markets and global trade at the moment. The Japanese yen has been...

Thu, 09 May 2024

Hugh Hendry says the world is brimming with risks right now, from Chinese deflation, to the strength...

Mon, 06 May 2024

The Federal Reserve has a lot of official statistics it can look at to try and gauge the state of th...

Fri, 03 May 2024

In 2022, Congress passed the CHIPS Act, which set aside tens of billions of dollars in loans and gra...

Thu, 02 May 2024

Breakthroughs in generative AI have created enormous opportunities for humans to learn from computer...

Mon, 29 Apr 2024

In the past, the most expensive housing in any major city would be connected in some way to the econ...

Fri, 26 Apr 2024

When most investors think of due diligence, they think of sifting through years of financial stateme...

Thu, 25 Apr 2024

 AI is all the rage right now. There are billions of dollars now flowing into the space, with large...

Mon, 22 Apr 2024

Over the last year or so, probably every venture capitalist has become interested in artificial inte...

Fri, 19 Apr 2024

At the end of 2023, there was a lot of optimism that the US economy was on that glide path to a soft...

Fri, 19 Apr 2024

On June 2, 2024, Mexicans will go to the polls to elect a successor to current President Andrés Man...

Thu, 18 Apr 2024

Over the last few years, users of the popular ADHD drug Adderall have been frustrated by regular sho...

Mon, 15 Apr 2024

For years and years, utilities in the US haven't seen much growth in electricity demand. The economy...

Sat, 13 Apr 2024

The audio companion to Bloomberg Opinion’s beloved Money Stuff column hosted by its author Matt Le...

Fri, 12 Apr 2024

In 2021 and 2022, the US economy experienced historic shortages of many different goods. All kinds o...

Thu, 11 Apr 2024

 A bunch of companies saw their share prices boom during the pandemic. Peloton surged because no on...

Mon, 08 Apr 2024

US imports from Mexico are surging. Former President Trump's tariffs on China, as well as the renego...

Fri, 05 Apr 2024

Steve Eisman became a famous name in the investing world due to his prescient bet against the US hou...

Thu, 04 Apr 2024

When Savita Subramanian, head of US equity strategy at Bank of America, raised her outlook for stock...

Mon, 01 Apr 2024

When it comes to the collapse in office real estate, there's a lot of focus on who owns the debt, an...

Fri, 29 Mar 2024

The cost of cocoa beans has surged to a record $10,000 per metric ton. That's expected to make choco...

Thu, 28 Mar 2024

Walk into a grocery store today and there are seemingly endless shelves of product to choose from. B...

Tue, 26 Mar 2024

On March 26th, a massive container ship called the Dali ploughed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key ...

Tue, 26 Mar 2024

The Big Take from Bloomberg News brings you inside what’s shaping the world's economies with the s...

Mon, 25 Mar 2024

AI is an incredibly exciting space, provoking both great wonder and fear. One of the big worries obv...

Fri, 22 Mar 2024

Last year, we spoke with Rich Hill, head of real estate strategy and research at Cohen & Steers,...

Thu, 21 Mar 2024

In recent years, we've seen home insurance premiums soar by historic amounts. Not only have prices g...

Mon, 18 Mar 2024

After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the US took a number of extraordinary steps to cut Moscow out of...

Sat, 16 Mar 2024

The United Arab Emirates recently unveiled a stunning $35 billion investment in Egypt, snapping up d...

Fri, 15 Mar 2024

Thanks to the blockbuster musical, Alexander Hamilton has become a modern cultural icon. He's known ...

Thu, 14 Mar 2024

Want some Doritos? For years, you might have only been able to get one or two snack chip flavors. Bu...

Mon, 11 Mar 2024

The pharmaceutical space is characterized by extreme uncertainty. You never know what drugs are goin...

Fri, 08 Mar 2024

Japanese stocks are suddenly soaring, with the Nikkei 225 hitting an all-time high this week after d...

Thu, 07 Mar 2024

Go to any deli or 7-Eleven these days and you're sure to see a gigantic, technicolor wall of beverag...

Tue, 05 Mar 2024

The Deal, hosted by Alex Rodriguez and Jason Kelly, features intimate conversations with business ti...

Mon, 04 Mar 2024

We're coming up to the one-year anniversary of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, which sparked a ...

Fri, 01 Mar 2024

This episode is for the birds — and one bird in particular. Flaco, an Eurasian eagle-owl, escaped ...

Thu, 29 Feb 2024

The Federal Reserve has a goal of getting inflation down to 2%. But of course, there are a lot of di...

Mon, 26 Feb 2024

 The hedge fund industry has gone through multiple evolutions. Investing styles go in and out of fa...

Fri, 23 Feb 2024

If you order something from Ukraine right now, be it a T-shirt or a vintage Christmas ornament, chan...

Thu, 22 Feb 2024

Troubles at Boeing just keep piling up, along with existential questions about the company's future....

Mon, 19 Feb 2024

The growth of electric vehicles has heightened concerns about China's current dominance in lithium-i...

Fri, 16 Feb 2024

Last year, Corbu managing director Samuel Rines came on Odd Lots to discuss what exactly companies w...

Thu, 15 Feb 2024

A little less than a year ago, the US financial system was rocked by its first major banking drama s...

Mon, 12 Feb 2024

 Back in 2016, Donald Trump campaigned on a platform that included a much harsher stance toward tra...

Fri, 09 Feb 2024

US oil production has surged to an all-time record of more than 13 million barrels produced per day....

Thu, 08 Feb 2024

The last week saw a major plunge in shares of New York Community Bancorp after the company revealed ...

Mon, 05 Feb 2024

We know that companies think carefully about where they open stores. They might look at things like ...

Fri, 02 Feb 2024

In France, the Netherlands, Germany, and Poland, we've seen a wave of protests recently from angry f...

Thu, 01 Feb 2024

Attacks on ships in the Red Sea continue to escalate. What started with narrow strikes by Yemeni-bas...

Wed, 31 Jan 2024

It's a busy week for the bond market with a meeting of the Federal Reserve and the release of the US...

Tue, 30 Jan 2024

This week on Lots More, we speak with Claudia Sahm, the former Federal Reserve economist and founder...

Mon, 29 Jan 2024

There are plenty of one-off risks at the moment, but it seems like betting on pretty much nothing ha...

Fri, 26 Jan 2024

For years, people have been talking about the end of US dollar dominance or how some other currency ...

Thu, 25 Jan 2024

The past few years have been pretty wild for anyone working in credit, the business of selling and t...

Mon, 22 Jan 2024

Right now, there's a lot of hope and optimism that the US economy is on a path towards a soft landin...

Fri, 19 Jan 2024

On Jan. 5, the plug door of an Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 blew out mid-flight, forcing the plane into...

Thu, 18 Jan 2024

In the early 2010s, US shale players were producing oil like crazy, with no concerns about profitabi...

Mon, 15 Jan 2024

A possible Chinese invasion of Taiwan has become a top-of-mind concern in defense and corporate circ...

Fri, 12 Jan 2024

For anyone interested in investing in the health-care space, JPMorgan's annual Health Care Conferenc...

Thu, 11 Jan 2024

Harley Bassman, a.k.a. the Convexity Maven, is a legend among bond investors. He worked at Merrill L...

Tue, 09 Jan 2024

The mood about the US economy feels very different right now than it did a year ago. At the start of...

Mon, 08 Jan 2024

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Thu, 04 Jan 2024

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Mon, 01 Jan 2024

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Thu, 28 Dec 2023

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Mon, 25 Dec 2023

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Thu, 21 Dec 2023

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Tue, 19 Dec 2023

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Mon, 18 Dec 2023

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Fri, 15 Dec 2023

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Thu, 14 Dec 2023

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Mon, 11 Dec 2023

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Thu, 07 Dec 2023

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Wed, 06 Dec 2023

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Mon, 04 Dec 2023

There's been a lot of worry over the future of commercial real estate — especially the outlook for...

Fri, 01 Dec 2023

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Thu, 30 Nov 2023

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Wed, 29 Nov 2023

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Mon, 27 Nov 2023

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Thu, 23 Nov 2023

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Wed, 22 Nov 2023

The effort to decarbonize the US electricity grid involves a range of technologies and power sources...

Mon, 20 Nov 2023

It's no secret that the market for private credit has boomed in recent years. The surprising thing i...

Fri, 17 Nov 2023

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Thu, 16 Nov 2023

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Mon, 13 Nov 2023

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Thu, 09 Nov 2023

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Wed, 08 Nov 2023

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Mon, 06 Nov 2023

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Thu, 02 Nov 2023

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Mon, 30 Oct 2023

This special episode of Odd Lots was recorded live at the Bloomberg Screentime festival earlier this...

Thu, 26 Oct 2023

For awhile, it was Red Bull that was synonymous with energy drinks. Then Monster Energy came along a...

Mon, 23 Oct 2023

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Fri, 20 Oct 2023

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Thu, 19 Oct 2023

Mortgage rates have surged over the last couple of years. But surprisingly to some, actual home pric...

Mon, 16 Oct 2023

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Wed, 11 Oct 2023

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Wed, 11 Oct 2023

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Wed, 04 Oct 2023

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Mon, 02 Oct 2023

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Fri, 29 Sep 2023

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Thu, 28 Sep 2023

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Wed, 27 Sep 2023

When it comes to economics, there are a bunch of different schools to choose from, but pretty much a...

Mon, 25 Sep 2023

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Fri, 22 Sep 2023

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Thu, 21 Sep 2023

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Mon, 18 Sep 2023

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Fri, 15 Sep 2023

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Wed, 13 Sep 2023

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Mon, 11 Sep 2023

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Thu, 07 Sep 2023

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Mon, 04 Sep 2023

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Thu, 31 Aug 2023

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Wed, 30 Aug 2023

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Tue, 29 Aug 2023

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Mon, 28 Aug 2023

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Sat, 26 Aug 2023

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Fri, 25 Aug 2023

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Thu, 24 Aug 2023

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Mon, 21 Aug 2023

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Thu, 17 Aug 2023

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Mon, 14 Aug 2023

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Fri, 11 Aug 2023

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Thu, 10 Aug 2023

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Mon, 07 Aug 2023

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Thu, 03 Aug 2023

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Mon, 31 Jul 2023

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Thu, 27 Jul 2023

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Mon, 24 Jul 2023

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Thu, 20 Jul 2023

Artificial Intelligence is all the rage right now and most of the investor excitement has so far bee...

Mon, 17 Jul 2023

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Fri, 14 Jul 2023

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Thu, 13 Jul 2023

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Mon, 10 Jul 2023

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Thu, 06 Jul 2023

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Tue, 04 Jul 2023

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Mon, 03 Jul 2023

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Fri, 30 Jun 2023

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Thu, 29 Jun 2023

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Mon, 26 Jun 2023

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Thu, 22 Jun 2023

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Mon, 19 Jun 2023

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Fri, 16 Jun 2023

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Thu, 15 Jun 2023

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Mon, 12 Jun 2023

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Thu, 08 Jun 2023

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Mon, 05 Jun 2023

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Thu, 01 Jun 2023

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Mon, 29 May 2023

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Thu, 25 May 2023

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Wed, 24 May 2023

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Mon, 22 May 2023

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Fri, 19 May 2023

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Thu, 18 May 2023

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Mon, 15 May 2023

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Thu, 11 May 2023

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Mon, 08 May 2023

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Thu, 04 May 2023

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Mon, 01 May 2023

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Thu, 27 Apr 2023

There's been a lot of discussion about the possibility of "de-dollarization," or the idea that the w...

Mon, 24 Apr 2023

The big headlines from March's banking crisis have receded and balances at some of the Federal Reser...

Thu, 20 Apr 2023

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Thu, 20 Apr 2023

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Thu, 20 Apr 2023

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Mon, 17 Apr 2023

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Thu, 13 Apr 2023

In August of last year, the White House signed the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, a bipartisan effor...

Mon, 10 Apr 2023

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Thu, 06 Apr 2023

Nassim Taleb has never been shy about expressing his viewpoints on a wide range of topics. But latel...

Mon, 03 Apr 2023

For the most part, being a landlord, particularly in a major city, has been a good business to be in...

Thu, 30 Mar 2023

One of the big mysteries in markets right now is why risk assets rallied so strongly into the new ye...

Mon, 27 Mar 2023

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Thu, 23 Mar 2023

When Silicon Valley Bank failed, the government stepped in and guaranteed that all accounts — even...

Mon, 20 Mar 2023

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Fri, 17 Mar 2023

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Thu, 16 Mar 2023

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Tue, 14 Mar 2023

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Mon, 13 Mar 2023

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Thu, 09 Mar 2023

The persistence of inflation is a bit of a mystery to economists. Many of the shocks of the last few...

Mon, 06 Mar 2023

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Thu, 02 Mar 2023

Homebuilders have experienced major whiplash over the last few years. The pandemic originally caused...

Mon, 27 Feb 2023

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Thu, 23 Feb 2023

The Federal Reserve has been raising benchmark borrowing rates at the fastest pace in decades, but t...

Mon, 20 Feb 2023

It's been one year since Russia invaded Ukraine in an event that set off a chain reaction of both ge...

Fri, 17 Feb 2023

President Biden came into office with an incredibly slim legislative majority. And yet despite just ...

Thu, 16 Feb 2023

The US is in the middle of another debt ceiling fight. The expectation is that it will get lifted be...

Mon, 13 Feb 2023

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Fri, 10 Feb 2023

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Thu, 09 Feb 2023

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Thu, 09 Feb 2023

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates at the fastest pace in decades in 2022. But despite the ra...

Mon, 06 Feb 2023

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Wed, 01 Feb 2023

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Mon, 30 Jan 2023

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Thu, 26 Jan 2023

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Mon, 23 Jan 2023

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Fri, 20 Jan 2023

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Thu, 19 Jan 2023

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Mon, 16 Jan 2023

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Fri, 13 Jan 2023

The discount window at the Federal Reserve allows banks to borrow money at an above-market rate in e...

Thu, 12 Jan 2023

The most recent jobs report has revived talk that the US economy might pull off the fabled "soft lan...

Mon, 09 Jan 2023

Thanks to work from home, and other trends, workers are being electronically monitored by their boss...

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Fri, 30 Dec 2022

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Thu, 29 Dec 2022

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Mon, 26 Dec 2022

Plastic is in almost everything and prices of polypropylene, polyethylene and a host of other polyme...

Thu, 22 Dec 2022

We talk a lot about macroeconomic trends on the podcast. What's happening with inflation? Is the lab...

Mon, 19 Dec 2022

Last week was a big one. On Tuesday, we got a CPI report that came in substantially cooler than expe...

Thu, 15 Dec 2022

The US financial system today is pretty much taken as a given. We have the Federal Reserve, which se...

Mon, 12 Dec 2022

2022 has seen numerous crypto disasters, most notably FTX. Also the price of most coins has tumbled ...

Thu, 08 Dec 2022

Heatwaves, droughts, hurricanes, floods... in a year of commodity shortages and supply chain disrupt...

Mon, 05 Dec 2022

We're in the aftermath of an extraordinary bubble in cryptocurrencies and the collapse of FTX is a d...

Thu, 01 Dec 2022

China has seen a surge in protests in cities all around the country, targeted at the country's Covid...

Mon, 28 Nov 2022

The US economy may not be in a recession, but Silicon Valley, which had a mega-boom throughout the 2...

Wed, 23 Nov 2022

Earlier this year we talked to the legendary short seller Jim Chanos, during which he warned of more...

Mon, 21 Nov 2022

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Fri, 18 Nov 2022

It was on an episode of the Odd Lots podcast in April 2022 that Sam Bankman-Fried infamously charact...

Thu, 17 Nov 2022

The collapse of the Sam Bankman-Fried empire is gigantic, sprawling and fast moving. While details a...

Mon, 14 Nov 2022

We talk a lot about the US shale boom. And we talk a lot about OPEC. But one of the most exciting st...

Thu, 10 Nov 2022

The surge in gas costs in Europe threatens to impose massive pain on households and cripple energy-i...

Mon, 07 Nov 2022

There are a bunch of historical analogies that people like to reach for in order to describe some of...

Thu, 03 Nov 2022

After years of basically printing money, the big online Internet behemoths are starting to stumble f...

Mon, 31 Oct 2022

It's no secret that a strong US dollar causes the rest of the world pain, but the impact of this yea...

Mon, 31 Oct 2022

The Midwest has been gripped by drought this year and water levels on the Mississippi River have fal...

Fri, 28 Oct 2022

When people think about the so-called 'gig economy' they probably first think about Uber. But truck ...

Thu, 27 Oct 2022

US mortgage rates have jumped to a two-decade high, with the average 30-year home loan now running a...

Mon, 24 Oct 2022

Earlier this month, the Biden administration unveiled a new set of restrictions on exporting semicon...

Fri, 21 Oct 2022

Alberta is one of Canada's most conservative provinces, with an economy and culture that might be co...

Wed, 19 Oct 2022

Nouriel Roubini is known for his bearish prognostications. And unfortunately, he still doesn't see a...

Mon, 17 Oct 2022

Jigar Shah is the director of the loan office at the Department of Energy. For years, this division ...

Thu, 13 Oct 2022

The Chinese government's biggest political gathering comes at a time of numerous challenges.Next wee...

Mon, 10 Oct 2022

Thanks to the surge in mortgage rates, we've seen a historic collapse in mortgage affordability. New...

Thu, 06 Oct 2022

UK financial assets just experienced once-in-a-generation type moves in the wake of the government's...

Mon, 03 Oct 2022

One of the biggest drivers of inflation is rent. Arguably, it's the whole ballgame right now. If ren...

Thu, 29 Sep 2022

When Russia invaded Ukraine, there was a widespread expectation of a surge in prices for numerous co...

Mon, 26 Sep 2022

Europe is facing an energy crisis and there are some dire predictions about how it will deal with th...

Thu, 22 Sep 2022

Stablecoin regulation has become a hot topic, and for very good reason. For one thing, it's an extre...

Mon, 19 Sep 2022

For years, it's been on the Ethereum roadmap to transition its blockchain from proof-of-work to proo...

Thu, 15 Sep 2022

Cryptocurrencies often don't fit neatly into traditional asset buckets. They're not exactly currenci...

Sun, 11 Sep 2022

Credit Suisse strategist Zoltan Pozsar has found a new level of fame over the last year, arguing tha...

Thu, 08 Sep 2022

To the surprise of many people, the Biden administration has notched some significant economic polic...

Mon, 05 Sep 2022

In the wake of the Great Financial Crisis, China arguably led the world out of the downturn. Its gig...

Wed, 31 Aug 2022

At Jackson Hole, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell gave a hawkish speech intended to leave no ambi...

Mon, 29 Aug 2022

The unemployment rate is down to 3.5%, which is far lower than just about anyone thought it would be...

Thu, 25 Aug 2022

The Federal Reserve is in tightening mode. And there's that old adage "don't fight the Fed" which me...

Mon, 22 Aug 2022

In theory, what gets people most excited about crypto is lines going straight up. But one of the big...

Fri, 19 Aug 2022

Gas prices are central to everything these days. Biden's approval rating seems to move inverse with ...

Thu, 18 Aug 2022

Thanks to surging energy costs and extreme weather events, there's a greater urgency to decarbonize ...

Mon, 15 Aug 2022

As everyone knows, electricity prices in Europe have soared, due to a combination of factors, most p...

Thu, 11 Aug 2022

Markets have staged an impressive bounce since the middle of June. Stocks are way up. Credit spreads...

Mon, 08 Aug 2022

The multi-trillion dollar question for the US economy is “Can inflation drop to the Federal Reserv...

Thu, 04 Aug 2022

Labor markets are considered to be "tight" right now, but wage growth continues to lag inflation. Fo...

Mon, 01 Aug 2022

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Thu, 28 Jul 2022

With energy prices booming, heatwaves ravaging Europe, and Russia going to war against Ukraine, ther...

Wed, 27 Jul 2022

In theory, a big shift towards renewable sources of energy (like wind and solar and electric vehicle...

Mon, 25 Jul 2022

The Federal Reserve recently began shrinking its massive balance sheet, unwinding trillions of dolla...

Thu, 21 Jul 2022

For years, venture capital firms have been pouring money into start-ups, trying to get a piece of th...

Mon, 18 Jul 2022

Every time a crisis hits, you get a new round of people warning about the end of US dollar dominance...

Fri, 15 Jul 2022

This week, Twitter sued Elon Musk, attempting to force him to make good on his 44 billion buyout off...

Thu, 14 Jul 2022

If you've ever interacted with hardcore Bitcoin maximalists you might find some of them, at least, t...

Mon, 11 Jul 2022

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Thu, 07 Jul 2022

The first real explosive Internet IPO was a company called TheGlobe.com. It was kind of a proto-soci...

Mon, 04 Jul 2022

Inflation was running hot even before Russia invaded Ukraine, but disruption in Europe's bread baske...

Fri, 01 Jul 2022

'Markets can stay irrational for longer than you can stay solvent' is a classic maxim for investors,...

Thu, 30 Jun 2022

The situation in energy right now seems bleak. But while everyone is focused on the high price of ga...

Mon, 27 Jun 2022

There are a lot of challenges facing emerging markets right now. For a start, the dollar has been pr...

Thu, 23 Jun 2022

There's a fairly linear relationship between what's going on in the stock market and what's going on...

Wed, 22 Jun 2022

The price of oil is the central threat to the economy right now. Surging gasoline costs crimp consum...

Mon, 20 Jun 2022

Oil prices are sky high. And there's plenty of oil in the ground in North America. And so far the su...

Thu, 16 Jun 2022

Legendary short seller Jim Chanos says that despite the plunge in stocks, there are numerous swathes...

Mon, 13 Jun 2022

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Thu, 09 Jun 2022

Most people think of Foxconn as the company that assembles iPhones. But it's a lot more than that. I...

Mon, 06 Jun 2022

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Thu, 02 Jun 2022

The collapse of the Terra/Luna experiment has brought fresh attention to stablecoins, and the differ...

Mon, 30 May 2022

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Fri, 27 May 2022

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Thu, 26 May 2022

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Thu, 19 May 2022

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Sun, 15 May 2022

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Thu, 12 May 2022

The first true meme stock was GameStop, which went wild in early 2021, delivering brutal losses to s...

Mon, 09 May 2022

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Thu, 05 May 2022

The aviation industry has never seen a disruption like what it's experienced over the last two years...

Mon, 02 May 2022

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Thu, 28 Apr 2022

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Mon, 25 Apr 2022

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Wed, 20 Apr 2022

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Mon, 18 Apr 2022

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Thu, 14 Apr 2022

Goldman's top commodity strategist Jeff Currie was one of the earliest to call that we're in a new c...

Mon, 11 Apr 2022

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Tue, 05 Apr 2022

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Thu, 31 Mar 2022

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Mon, 28 Mar 2022

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Thu, 24 Mar 2022

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Wed, 23 Mar 2022

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Thu, 17 Mar 2022

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Mon, 14 Mar 2022

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Mon, 07 Mar 2022

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Thu, 03 Mar 2022

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Mon, 28 Feb 2022

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Thu, 24 Feb 2022

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Mon, 21 Feb 2022

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Thu, 17 Feb 2022

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Thu, 10 Feb 2022

The book “Liar's Poker” came out in 1989. Its depiction of Wall Street culture — obnoxious, cr...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022

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Thu, 03 Feb 2022

Obviously, there's been a tremendous amount of volatility in crypto lately. But what has been the ef...

Mon, 31 Jan 2022

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Thu, 27 Jan 2022

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Mon, 24 Jan 2022

The EV revolution is official on. Sales are soaring around the world as the internal combustion engi...

Thu, 20 Jan 2022

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Mon, 17 Jan 2022

Near the end of 2021, Turkey's government undertook a bold measure to stabilize the lira after the c...

Thu, 13 Jan 2022

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Mon, 10 Jan 2022

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Thu, 06 Jan 2022

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Mon, 03 Jan 2022

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Mon, 27 Dec 2021

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Thu, 23 Dec 2021

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Mon, 20 Dec 2021

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Thu, 16 Dec 2021

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Mon, 13 Dec 2021

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Thu, 09 Dec 2021

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Mon, 06 Dec 2021

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Thu, 02 Dec 2021

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Mon, 29 Nov 2021

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Thu, 25 Nov 2021

Most of the big retailers have assured their customers that shelves will be stocked for the holidays...

Mon, 22 Nov 2021

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Thu, 18 Nov 2021

The corporate bond market is huge and important, allowing U.S. companies to tap investors for much n...

Mon, 15 Nov 2021

This year has brought fresh awareness to the complexity of the semiconductor supply chain. Taiwan Se...

Thu, 11 Nov 2021

Inflation is running at its fastest pace in over 30 years. And one upward contributor to it is highe...

Mon, 08 Nov 2021

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Thu, 04 Nov 2021

Inflation is elevated these days, and markets around the world are pricing in rate hikes. However, r...

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In recent weeks, the White House has attempted to make a greater effort to improve the functioning o...

Mon, 25 Oct 2021

Official inflation measures in the U.S. remain elevated and so, of course, this has a lot of people ...

Thu, 21 Oct 2021

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Mon, 18 Oct 2021

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Thu, 14 Oct 2021

We've been covering global supply chain pressures almost since the beginning of the year on Odd Lots...

Mon, 11 Oct 2021

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Fri, 08 Oct 2021

On Breakthrough, a new series from the Prognosis podcast, we explore how the pandemic is changing ou...

Thu, 07 Oct 2021

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Mon, 04 Oct 2021

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Thu, 30 Sep 2021

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Mon, 27 Sep 2021

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Thu, 23 Sep 2021

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Mon, 20 Sep 2021

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Thu, 16 Sep 2021

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Mon, 13 Sep 2021

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Thu, 09 Sep 2021

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Mon, 06 Sep 2021

Passive investing is kind of boring. You dump your money in an index fund and that's it. The industr...

Thu, 02 Sep 2021

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Mon, 30 Aug 2021

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Thu, 26 Aug 2021

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Mon, 23 Aug 2021

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Thu, 19 Aug 2021

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Mon, 16 Aug 2021

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Thu, 12 Aug 2021

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Mon, 09 Aug 2021

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Thu, 05 Aug 2021

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Mon, 02 Aug 2021

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Thu, 29 Jul 2021

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Mon, 26 Jul 2021

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Thu, 22 Jul 2021

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Mon, 19 Jul 2021

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Thu, 15 Jul 2021

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Mon, 12 Jul 2021

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Thu, 08 Jul 2021

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Mon, 05 Jul 2021

Bookstores typically aren't seen as the most attractive businesses in the year 2021. Add in the pand...

Thu, 01 Jul 2021

There's a lot of hype about so-called DeFi (decentralized finance) these days, and much of it is bas...

Mon, 28 Jun 2021

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Thu, 24 Jun 2021

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Mon, 21 Jun 2021

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Thu, 17 Jun 2021

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Mon, 14 Jun 2021

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Thu, 10 Jun 2021

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Mon, 07 Jun 2021

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Thu, 03 Jun 2021

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Mon, 31 May 2021

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Thu, 27 May 2021

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Mon, 24 May 2021

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Thu, 20 May 2021

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Mon, 17 May 2021

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Thu, 13 May 2021

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Tue, 11 May 2021

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Mon, 10 May 2021

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Thu, 06 May 2021

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Mon, 03 May 2021

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Thu, 29 Apr 2021

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Mon, 26 Apr 2021

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Thu, 22 Apr 2021

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Mon, 19 Apr 2021

It's a weird moment for the markets. The big stock indices are near all time highs. And yet there ha...

Thu, 15 Apr 2021

Whenever the government is engaging in fiscal or monetary expansion, people like to invoke the histo...

Mon, 12 Apr 2021

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Thu, 08 Apr 2021

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Mon, 05 Apr 2021

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Thu, 01 Apr 2021

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Wed, 31 Mar 2021

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Mon, 29 Mar 2021

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Thu, 25 Mar 2021

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Mon, 22 Mar 2021

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Thu, 18 Mar 2021

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Mon, 15 Mar 2021

For decades, the dominant economic philosophy of the United States has been that fiscal policy shoul...

Fri, 12 Mar 2021

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Thu, 11 Mar 2021

By some measures, the Chinese economy did better in 2020 than just about anywhere else. For one thin...

Mon, 08 Mar 2021

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Fri, 05 Mar 2021

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Thu, 04 Mar 2021

The Treasury market just experienced what some might call a tantrum. Across the yield curve, we saw ...

Mon, 01 Mar 2021

SPACs, sometimes referred to as blank check companies, are incredibly hot. After being a sort of sle...

Thu, 25 Feb 2021

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Mon, 22 Feb 2021

The world is facing a chip shortage. Numerous companies, including the auto sector, are facing an in...

Thu, 18 Feb 2021

As you might have heard, so-called value investing has not had a good run. At least from a quantitat...

Wed, 17 Feb 2021

During the worst of the pandemic, people loaded up on staples from their grocery store. Shelf-stable...

Mon, 15 Feb 2021

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Thu, 11 Feb 2021

In a world dominated by passive investing on one end and retail YOLO traders on the other, there are...

Mon, 08 Feb 2021

Bitcoin, and crypto more broadly, have been on a huge tear lately. Then, with the chaos surrounding ...

Thu, 04 Feb 2021

It's been a weird several days in the market. What started with a short squeeze in GameStop, driven ...

Wed, 03 Feb 2021

We know that retail activity, much of it on Robinhood, has been surging since last spring once the l...

Tue, 02 Feb 2021

The GameStop short squeeze is one of the most extraordinary events to ever happen in markets. But do...

Mon, 01 Feb 2021

We're seeing historic change happening in real time in the chip industry. The old leaders are going ...

Fri, 29 Jan 2021

Everyone is talking about GameStop. The physical games retailer that was left for dead has been one ...

Thu, 28 Jan 2021

We've been talking a lot on the podcast about semiconductors. The stumble of Intel. The general trou...

Mon, 25 Jan 2021

In every conversation about computer chips, it always comes back to the dominant player: TSMC. Found...

Thu, 21 Jan 2021

It goes without saying that 2020 was a year like no other when it comes to the markets. A historic c...

Mon, 18 Jan 2021

The coronavirus crisis snarled global shipping in early 2020 as borders were closed, but lots of peo...

Thu, 14 Jan 2021

The U.S. was once a manufacturing leader in semiconductors. That's no longer the case, given the ris...

Mon, 11 Jan 2021

One of the surprising developments in the last year was the boom in SPACs. The so-called blank check...

Thu, 07 Jan 2021

We're in a rare moment where chess is popular in the United States. There are two big factors drivin...

Mon, 04 Jan 2021

It's been pointed out that, after the Black Death in Europe, real wages surged because there was suc...

Thu, 31 Dec 2020

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Mon, 28 Dec 2020

2020 has been an absolutely extraordinary year for the economy. In March, we saw the fastest economi...

Thu, 24 Dec 2020

This past summer, the business intelligence software company MicroStrategy made waves when it put so...

Mon, 21 Dec 2020

We talk a lot about quantitative trading on the podcast, but typically from a rather big picture per...

Thu, 17 Dec 2020

On a recent episode of Odd Lots, we talked about Intel, and how the former dominant American semicon...

Mon, 14 Dec 2020

It's obviously been an extraordinary year for markets and the economy for reasons that don't need st...

Thu, 10 Dec 2020

It's no secret that some African nations went on a borrowing spree in recent years, tapping both int...

Mon, 07 Dec 2020

For years, the IMF was generally of the view that free trade was good, and that open capital flows w...

Thu, 03 Dec 2020

With developed economies still operating well below pre-crisis levels, central banks face substantia...

Mon, 30 Nov 2020

For years, Intel has been the pre-eminent U.S. semiconductor company. But lately, the company has st...

Thu, 26 Nov 2020

There are many similarities between cryptocurrencies and social networks. And the rise of payment ap...

Mon, 23 Nov 2020

Traditional quant strategies that try to screen for stocks that are "cheap" have had an extremely ro...

Thu, 19 Nov 2020

Bitcoin has been on a tear lately, but it's been a bit unclear as to what's driving it. But whatever...

Mon, 16 Nov 2020

The politics of taxes are always fraught. In theory, everyone wants to pay less of them and bristle ...

Thu, 12 Nov 2020

Investors have always had to pay attention to what's going on in Washington DC, but this year it's b...

Mon, 09 Nov 2020

This year's stock market boom has coincided with a boom in new listings. There have been plenty of I...

Thu, 05 Nov 2020

Measuring a company's book value is a classic practice among investors seeking to understand how muc...

Mon, 02 Nov 2020

The IPO of Ant Financial will go down as one of the most extraordinary deals of all time. And in gen...

Thu, 29 Oct 2020

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Mon, 26 Oct 2020

For months now, traders have been positioning for a major volatility spike around the November elect...

Thu, 22 Oct 2020

Central banks around the world are increasingly launching pilot projects to explore the possibility ...

Tue, 20 Oct 2020

With just two weeks until the election, talks over a stimulus deal remain ongoing, with negotiations...

Mon, 19 Oct 2020

It's been an extraordinary year for traders of volatility. We had the crisis, we had this incredible...

Thu, 15 Oct 2020

For over a century, tobacco stocks have been among the greatest investments in history, consistently...

Mon, 12 Oct 2020

In the wake of the Great Financial Crisis, you heard a lot of talk about the US becoming like Greece...

Thu, 08 Oct 2020

Interest in quantitative investing strategies continues to grow; however, as the space gets more com...

Mon, 05 Oct 2020

One of the guiding lights of Fed policy over the years has been the so-called Neutral Rate of Intere...

Thu, 01 Oct 2020

In a carry trade, an investor borrows money cheaply to buy an asset that yields more. As long as not...

Mon, 28 Sep 2020

These days it seems like all financial markets are the same big trade. A gold chart looks like a Tes...

Thu, 24 Sep 2020

Back in 2017, during the Bitcoin boom, there were a number of different attempts to use blockchain t...

Mon, 21 Sep 2020

Crypto is hot this year again. In 2020, we've not only seen a substantial rally across a lot of diff...

Thu, 17 Sep 2020

The use of so-called "alternative data" has been gathering attention for some time. Investors have b...

Mon, 14 Sep 2020

One of the most intriguing subplots to the 2020 stock market boom has been the speculative fervor wi...

Thu, 10 Sep 2020

SPACs have been around a long time. The basic premise is that a group of people raise a bunch of mon...

Mon, 07 Sep 2020

It's fun to talk about what money is, but often it's hard to connect the dots and make it actually r...

Thu, 03 Sep 2020

Paul McCulley is a former Managing Director at PIMCO and a legend of the industry, having helped coi...

Mon, 31 Aug 2020

The Fed is facing historic challenges for two reasons. The first is the coronavirus and the task of ...

Thu, 27 Aug 2020

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Mon, 24 Aug 2020

When COVID hit, people had visions of a plunge in home prices and a massive wave of evictions. So fa...

Thu, 20 Aug 2020

In the United States, Black Americans have experienced persistently higher levels of unemployment th...

Mon, 17 Aug 2020

The pandemic has been brutal for restaurants and other indoor entertainment venues. So imagine runni...

Mon, 10 Aug 2020

For years, people have identified the lack of fiscal transfers and fiscal burden sharing as one of t...

Thu, 06 Aug 2020

In light of the massive disruption to the economy, there’s a widespread view that things have been...

Mon, 03 Aug 2020

For years, macro hedge fund managers have been stalking the Hong Kong Dollar. Since 1983, the curren...

Thu, 30 Jul 2020

With so many people working at home, bored, and with no sports to bet on, there’s been an incredib...

Tue, 28 Jul 2020

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Mon, 27 Jul 2020

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Mon, 20 Jul 2020

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Mon, 13 Jul 2020

In response to the economic crisis, governments around the world have engaged in stimulative policie...

Thu, 09 Jul 2020

Officially, the US unemployment rate stands at 11%. This is higher than the worst levels of the fina...

Mon, 06 Jul 2020

The world has gotten angrier in recent years, and the coronavirus crisis seems likely to have accele...

Thu, 02 Jul 2020

Central banks and fiscal authorities around the world have taken extraordinary measures to stem the ...

Mon, 29 Jun 2020

For years and years, the Chinese economy has been characterized as a bubble, with too much debt, and...

Thu, 25 Jun 2020

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Mon, 22 Jun 2020

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Thu, 18 Jun 2020

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Mon, 15 Jun 2020

In the summer of 2004, Google went public and, as everyone knows, it’s done phenomenally well. Wha...

Thu, 11 Jun 2020

One of the characteristics of the pre-crisis (and perhaps also the post-crisis) economy is the prese...

Mon, 08 Jun 2020

As many active fund managers have discovered in recent years, it’s extremely hard to find a sustai...

Fri, 05 Jun 2020

Welcome to Part V of the Odd Lots LIBOR series, in which Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal take a loo...

Thu, 04 Jun 2020

Welcome to Part IV of the Odd Lots LIBOR series, in which Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal take a lo...

Wed, 03 Jun 2020

Welcome to Part III of the Odd Lots LIBOR series, in which Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal take a l...

Tue, 02 Jun 2020

Welcome to Part II of the Odd Lots LIBOR series, in which Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal take a lo...

Mon, 01 Jun 2020

Welcome to the Odd Lots LIBOR series, in which Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal take a look at life ...

Thu, 28 May 2020

When people talk about the dominance of the U.S. dollar in global commerce, they often refer to it a...

Mon, 25 May 2020

The economic crisis will result in an extraordinary amount of pain for emerging markets. In addition...

Thu, 21 May 2020

Even with the recent stock market rally, expectations are poor for a robust recovery in the U.S. So ...

Mon, 18 May 2020

How should the government address the economic crisis? On this episode, we talk with Mark Cuban, the...

Thu, 14 May 2020

With the acute phase of the health crisis having faded in China, factory activity has ramped up agai...

Mon, 11 May 2020

Countries around the world are undergoing an unprecedented, simultaneous real economic shock. So how...

Thu, 07 May 2020

We’ve seen a huge market crash this year and a number of firms reporting portfolio losses. So why ...

Mon, 04 May 2020

During the last crisis, the economist Nouriel Roubini earned the nickname “Dr. Doom” for his omi...

Thu, 30 Apr 2020

The hunt is on for a clinical therapy to prevent or treat COVID-19. But what’s the best way to go ...

Mon, 27 Apr 2020

In 2018, Columbia history professor Adam Tooze published his magisterial work “Crashed”, which f...

Thu, 23 Apr 2020

The fate of the economy remains extremely unclear. However there is little doubt that the Fed has ta...

Mon, 20 Apr 2020

With major economies around the world coming to a screeching halt, emerging markets are in a squeeze...

Fri, 17 Apr 2020

Commerce and payments are increasingly digital. This shift from physical to electronic is one that g...

Wed, 15 Apr 2020

At the end of March, Congress passed the CARES Act in an attempt to mitigate some of the massive eco...

Mon, 13 Apr 2020

With the U.S. economy going into a deep slump, the Federal government has attempted to counteract th...

Thu, 09 Apr 2020

Earlier this year on Odd Lots, we did an episode about Korean structured investment products that we...

Mon, 06 Apr 2020

The commercial real estate market has been clobbered in this crisis, as restaurants and stores virtu...

Mon, 30 Mar 2020

The plumbing of the financial system is coming under strain like never before. On this week’s podc...

Thu, 26 Mar 2020

In normal times, U.S. Treasuries are the ultimate safe haven. They are highly liquid and guaranteed ...

Mon, 23 Mar 2020

For a long time, people have been warning that corporate debt could be the major source of vulnerabi...

Thu, 19 Mar 2020

Markets around the world are so extremely volatile that nobody can think of any perfect precedent. T...

Mon, 16 Mar 2020

Saudi Arabia recently announced that it was engaging in a full-on price war by pumping oil like craz...

Thu, 12 Mar 2020

The U.S. is on the verge of an economic crisis due to the coronavirus, as people and businesses aggr...

Mon, 09 Mar 2020

Questions continue to arise over the effect of passive investing, and whether or not it's somehow di...

Thu, 05 Mar 2020

In recent weeks, before the stock market plunged, a page on reddit called r/WallStreetBets suddenly ...

Mon, 02 Mar 2020

There are lots of famous debt crises in history, but the story of Iraq's government debt build-up in...

Wed, 26 Feb 2020

Apple's recent revenue warning reminded the world of how exposed the company is to China, and in par...

Mon, 24 Feb 2020

One of the best recent movies was Uncut Gems, in which Adam Sandler plays a Diamond District jeweler...

Mon, 17 Feb 2020

Back in 2017, the World Bank issued the world's first pandemic bonds. The bonds are meant to shift s...

Mon, 10 Feb 2020

Over the last decade or so, we've seen an incredible rise in so-called passive investing. While defi...

Mon, 03 Feb 2020

There's a growing consensus that governments need to act more aggressively in using fiscal policy to...

Mon, 27 Jan 2020

Even to this day, there are economists who don't understand money or don't think that money is an im...

Fri, 24 Jan 2020

At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, there was a lot of talk about the need to change the wo...

Mon, 20 Jan 2020

What's the connection between low global interest rates, Korean retail investors, and the U.S. optio...

Mon, 13 Jan 2020

Iran's stock market is one of the most unfamiliar equity markets in the world. With Iran under strin...

Thu, 09 Jan 2020

Americans are paying more and getting less for their health care than ever before. On the new season...

Mon, 06 Jan 2020

From Argentina to Chile to Lebanon, we're seeing a high degree of political and economic uncertainty...

Mon, 30 Dec 2019

The severity of the Great Financial Crisis took economists by surprise, particularly the ones who be...

Mon, 23 Dec 2019

When people think about Bitcoin, they often think about neo-goldbugs who hate inflation and the Fede...

Mon, 16 Dec 2019

By this point, everybody knows that online dating is a massive phenomenon, reshaping the social habi...

Mon, 09 Dec 2019

Many people like to claim that the Federal Reserve is responsible for the high degree of leverage an...

Mon, 02 Dec 2019

For years, defaults were few and far between in China's corporate bond market. Most investors though...

Mon, 25 Nov 2019

How do Millennials view investing and spending? How do the rising costs of healthcare, education, an...

Mon, 18 Nov 2019

According to the website The Hendon Mob, the top tournament poker player of all time is the American...

Mon, 11 Nov 2019

Back in September, chaos erupted in short-term funding markets, as the cost for financial institutio...

Mon, 04 Nov 2019

Where did the notion come from that the obligation of a company's management is to maximize sharehol...

Mon, 28 Oct 2019

You probably haven't thought much about the Taiwanese life insurance industry. Why would you have? B...

Fri, 25 Oct 2019

Bloomberg's Travel Genius podcast is back! After clocking another hundred-thousand miles in the sky,...

Mon, 21 Oct 2019

Can the U.S. economy have a recession without it turning into a crisis? In the old days, such garden...

Mon, 14 Oct 2019

It's well known that Japan has (until recently) been mired in years of mediocre economic growth. And...

Mon, 07 Oct 2019

On September 19, 2019, Odd Lots hosted its first-ever live event at the WNYC Greene Space in downtow...

Tue, 01 Oct 2019

Stephanie Flanders, head of Bloomberg Economics, returns to bring you another season of on-the-groun...

Mon, 30 Sep 2019

For years, China has experienced blistering growth. Driven by an investment-heavy economic model, th...

Mon, 23 Sep 2019

History is littered with collapsed civilizations ranging from the Maya to Angkor Wat. But what can...

Mon, 16 Sep 2019

For years, people have been predicting the demise of the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency....

Mon, 09 Sep 2019

Last month, central bankers gathered at the annual Economic Symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. A lo...

Mon, 02 Sep 2019

One of the oldest, most basic strategies in investing is value investing, which, for lack of a bette...

Tue, 27 Aug 2019

On this new season of Prognosis, we look at the spread of infections that are resistant to antimicro...

Mon, 26 Aug 2019

Every day, people are bombarded with predictions of what will happen in the future. In recent months...

Mon, 19 Aug 2019

We live in a world of generally expensive stock markets and bank equities trading at 30-year lows. S...

Mon, 12 Aug 2019

The amount of negative-yielding debt keeps climbing and now includes bonds issued by emerging market...

Mon, 05 Aug 2019

It's no secret that a lot of the trade tensions between the U.S. and China have centered on technolo...

Mon, 29 Jul 2019

Last month, Facebook announced it was launching its own cryptocurrency called Libra. Facebook says L...

Mon, 22 Jul 2019

Of all the “unicorn” startups in recent years, perhaps none induces more skepticism than WeWork....

Mon, 15 Jul 2019

There's always bears out there predicting that the stock market will tank. But many of them aren't w...

Mon, 08 Jul 2019

Bitcoin has been around for roughly a decade now, but people have been working on the dream of an an...

Mon, 01 Jul 2019

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Mon, 24 Jun 2019

There's been a series of historic marches in Hong Kong, with millions of people taking to the street...

Mon, 17 Jun 2019

Famous, unique pieces of art are inherently illiquid. They don't sell very often, and pricing is inh...

Mon, 10 Jun 2019

South Korean boy band BTS is rarely connected to economics, but as the biggest success to come out o...

Mon, 03 Jun 2019

Earlier this month, President Trump escalated the trade tensions against China by limiting exports o...

Wed, 29 May 2019

“What Goes Up” is a new show from Bloomberg that tracks the main themes influencing global marke...

Mon, 27 May 2019

Bitcoin has been around for about ten years. But the dream of a decentralized, anonymous digital cur...

Thu, 23 May 2019

Marty Markowitz had his share of problems. His parents had recently died. He had troubles at work. A...

Mon, 20 May 2019

If you lived in NYC a few decades ago, you probably have heard of Crazy Eddie, an electronics retail...

Mon, 13 May 2019

When talking government bond defaults, plenty of people think of Argentina and Greece. But the bigge...

Thu, 09 May 2019

These days about one in three bites of food you eat wouldn’t be possible without commercial bee po...

Mon, 06 May 2019

Whenever poker is depicted on a TV show or in a movie there's a lot of emphasis placed on the art an...

Mon, 29 Apr 2019

Recently, the cryptocurrency exchange Binance delisted a Bitcoin offshoot, causing its price to fall...

Mon, 22 Apr 2019

No, no, don't worry, the Odd Lots podcast isn't coming to an end. But for actual odd lots -- trades ...

Wed, 17 Apr 2019

On this new show from Bloomberg, hosts Mike Regan and Sarah Ponczek speak with expert guests each we...

Mon, 15 Apr 2019

There's something wrong with prices in funding and bond markets, according to this week's Odd Lots g...

Mon, 08 Apr 2019

In discussions about Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) you often hear that while it may be true that the ...

Mon, 01 Apr 2019

Cullen Roche, the author of the financial blog Pragmatic Capitalism, explains why he went from an ad...

Mon, 25 Mar 2019

There's a problem in many debates about cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. While many peopl...

Mon, 18 Mar 2019

The online brokerage business burst on the scene in the late 90s, as at-home traders were lured to t...

Mon, 11 Mar 2019

China is front and center in the news again, thanks to the trade negotiations, as well as the Nation...

Mon, 04 Mar 2019

In mid-October last year, recreational cannabis became legal in Canada. Of course, there are all kin...

Mon, 25 Feb 2019

Some of Silicon Valley's biggest unicorns like Uber and Slack are expected to go public this year. B...

Mon, 18 Feb 2019

Jamie Catherwood is an investment analyst at Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. He's also a major financi...

Wed, 13 Feb 2019

The Pay Check is collecting stories for our upcoming season, and we want to hear from you! Did havin...

Mon, 11 Feb 2019

For years, the key to beating the stock market was to invest a lot in the big tech stocks like Faceb...

Mon, 04 Feb 2019

India is going to have a general election in the months ahead, and so it's important to understand t...

Mon, 28 Jan 2019

Matt Boesler, an economics reporter for Bloomberg, had the opportunity to report from Beijing for a ...

Mon, 21 Jan 2019

At the heart of government debt is a promise to pay back creditors. But governments sometimes don't ...

Mon, 14 Jan 2019

Even at Bitcoin’s recent peak, there was very little active use of the cryptocurrency in normal co...

Wed, 09 Jan 2019

On this new show from Bloomberg, hosts Francesca Levy and Rebecca Greenfield navigate the productivi...

Mon, 07 Jan 2019

The last two years have been an extraordinary ride for Bitcoin. It exploded in 2017, with the price ...

Mon, 31 Dec 2018

After a volatile 2018, few people in the market expect calm to return anytime soon. Politics, the Fe...

Mon, 24 Dec 2018

2018 will go down as one of the most pivotal for financial markets since the financial crisis. We sa...

Mon, 17 Dec 2018

The biggest macro trend in investing is the rise of so-called "passive investing." But while this ma...

Mon, 10 Dec 2018

The past couple months have seen the return of volatility in markets. On this edition of Odd Lots, w...

Mon, 03 Dec 2018

With assets like stocks and bonds, there are clear techniques you can use to value them. But what ab...

Mon, 26 Nov 2018

Paul Volcker is widely-regarded as single-handedly halting a period of severe inflation in the U.S. ...

Mon, 19 Nov 2018

For years, a common mantra among corporate executives has been that "the blockchain," the technology...

Mon, 12 Nov 2018

So-called "unicorns" have become household names in recent years. Multi-billion dollar companies lik...

Tue, 06 Nov 2018

What’s the most sure-fire way to get a flight upgrade? How can you find the best, secret local res...

Mon, 05 Nov 2018

If there's one person associated with the term "Rogue Trader" it's Nick Leeson, who singlehandedly b...

Fri, 02 Nov 2018

Where does a medical cure come from? 100 years ago, it wasn't uncommon for scientists to test medici...

Mon, 29 Oct 2018

Eurodollars have nothing to do with the euro-dollar exchange rate. Instead, they're effectively a so...

Wed, 24 Oct 2018

Bloomberg’s head of economics Stephanie Flanders calls on Bloomberg's worldwide network of reporte...

Mon, 22 Oct 2018

China has a plan for how it wants to transform into a modern economy. But the future of China’s ec...

Fri, 19 Oct 2018

The creation story of the first exchange-traded fund is actually the best way to understand how they...

Mon, 15 Oct 2018

Marijuana stocks have been on a tear recently, as investors bet on the explosion of a brand new, leg...

Mon, 08 Oct 2018

A little over two years ago, Saudi Arabia revealed plans to IPO part of its huge state-owned nationa...

Mon, 01 Oct 2018

David Barse was the CEO of Third Avenue Management when one of its credit funds melted down in late ...

Mon, 24 Sep 2018

What if there were a bank that could never experience a run? And furthermore, what if it paid higher...

Mon, 17 Sep 2018

Sixty percent in equities/40 percent in bonds is a popular, general approach to structuring a divers...

Mon, 10 Sep 2018

Companies have all kinds of discretion in how they recognize revenue and costs. Some of this is legi...

Tue, 04 Sep 2018

There's been an intense debate about what Tesla CEO Elon Musk meant when he tweeted in early August ...

Mon, 27 Aug 2018

Joe Weisenthal is a co-host of the Odd Lots podcast. He also once launched his own cryptocurrency ca...

Mon, 20 Aug 2018

Are you confused about the crisis in Turkey? Today's episode will get you cleared up. This week on O...

Mon, 13 Aug 2018

Open any financial publication and you'll see ads for investment products: exchange-traded funds, mu...

Mon, 06 Aug 2018

Srinivas Thiruvadanthai is the Director of Research at the Jerome Levy Forecasting Center, and one o...

Mon, 30 Jul 2018

Here's some good news for investors: If you've ever made a disastrous trade, you're not alone. All o...

Mon, 23 Jul 2018

If you want to understand how the human body works, you can't just look at healthy humans. You need ...

Mon, 16 Jul 2018

For years, it was pretty quiet in markets. Stocks kept making new highs and volatility drifted to fr...

Mon, 09 Jul 2018

Thanks to the tax cuts, the U.S. deficit is expected to surge again. And of course that's brought gr...

Mon, 02 Jul 2018

Everyone knows that online advertising pays for a massive chunk of the internet that people know and...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018

Earlier this year, markets were spooked by blow-ups in a number of volatility-linked products. But d...

Mon, 18 Jun 2018

A pivotal moment in U.S. political history is when CNBC's Rick Santelli went on a gigantic rant agai...

Mon, 11 Jun 2018

Longtime market analyst Ed Yardeni came up with the term "Bond Vigilantes" to describe the way bond ...

Mon, 04 Jun 2018

When you're eating a chocolate bar, there's a good chance you're not thinking about the complex comm...

Mon, 28 May 2018

For years, big banks, hedge funds and other investment firms took part in an epic scavenger hunt in ...

Mon, 21 May 2018

The recent trade tensions between the Trump administration and China has shone a light on the countr...

Mon, 14 May 2018

When Bitcoin first began generating headlines, there were some who thought the cryptocurrency was a ...

Wed, 09 May 2018

It’s a big, expensive, global mystery. Why do women still make less money—a lot less—than men?...

Mon, 07 May 2018

Everybody probably has some vague idea of what the paparazzi do. They ride around on motorcycles, ho...

Mon, 30 Apr 2018

The Kentucky Derby is coming up in early May, and it's time to get excited. On this week's Odd Lots ...

Mon, 23 Apr 2018

When it comes to millennials, the media has certain tropes that it likes to go back to. Millennials ...

Mon, 16 Apr 2018

We've been nominated for a Webby Award in the business podcast category, and we need the support of ...

Mon, 16 Apr 2018

By now, everyone's heard of ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings) where companies issue their own currency-l...

Mon, 09 Apr 2018

Recent threats to impose tariffs on Chinese goods, coupled with China's own retaliatory announcement...

Mon, 02 Apr 2018

A lot of people would probably agree that there's something wrong with much of the traditional advic...

Mon, 26 Mar 2018

Remember LIBOR? The London Interbank Offered Rate measures the cost of money when banks borrow from ...

Mon, 19 Mar 2018

These days, when you think of trading, you think of people sitting at a desk with a bunch of monitor...

Mon, 12 Mar 2018

For years, nobody seemed particularly concerned about inflation. Outside of a few blips, in the wake...

Mon, 05 Mar 2018

In theory, people should want to know accurate facts about the state of the world. In practice, it's...

Tue, 27 Feb 2018

Decrypted returns on March 6th with a brand new season. Here's a sneak peek of what's in store. We'l...

Mon, 26 Feb 2018

In the 1970s, NYC teetered on the verge of bankruptcy. This crisis lead to the dismantling of the ci...

Mon, 19 Feb 2018

In recent years, one of the easiest ways to make money in this market has been to bet on low volatil...

Mon, 12 Feb 2018

This month, Bloomberg is excited to bring you a brand new show. Every Friday on What'd You Miss This...

Mon, 12 Feb 2018

Anyone who watched poker on TV during the golden age of coverage a few years ago is familiar with An...

Tue, 06 Feb 2018

Quantitative finance is red hot. These days, basically everyone (banks, hedge funds etc.) is hiring ...

Mon, 29 Jan 2018

If you cover the economy from New York City or Abu Dhabi, it's easy to get caught up in a media bubb...

Mon, 22 Jan 2018

When we think about financial assets, we usually think of their price as being derived from some set...

Mon, 15 Jan 2018

For centuries, markets were highly-personalized things, often controlled by select groups of people ...

Mon, 08 Jan 2018

We talk a lot about bubbles on this podcast. Often we talk about them from the perspective of a trad...

Tue, 02 Jan 2018

On last week's episode of Odd Lots, Bloomberg's Chris Nagi and Matt Boesler gave us their takes for ...

Tue, 26 Dec 2017

The year is over, and now's the time to look back at the big stories of the past year. On this week'...

Mon, 18 Dec 2017

Algorithms. People talk about them all the time, particularly in relation to markets. But who actual...

Mon, 11 Dec 2017

When we think of computer-driven or "quant" investing, we often think fast moves, algorithms making ...

Mon, 04 Dec 2017

There are two popular schools of thought with regards to how markets work. There's the efficient mar...

Tue, 28 Nov 2017

Money goes where it's treated best. That simple truth is a big reason why more and more money—tril...

Mon, 27 Nov 2017

This month we saw a small sell-off in markets that got big attention. How did we get to the point wh...

Mon, 20 Nov 2017

In this age of algorithms and quants, you hear less and less about good old stock picking. You know,...

Mon, 13 Nov 2017

Most asset classes move in a fairly straightforward manner. They're either going up or down at any g...

Mon, 06 Nov 2017

You can't go a day without hearing about ICOs or Initial Coin Offerings. By taking advantage of a re...

Mon, 30 Oct 2017

Investors are constantly poring over income statements from big companies to figure out whether they...

Mon, 23 Oct 2017

By now, almost everyone in financial markets is familiar with ETFs (exchange-traded funds), and how ...

Mon, 16 Oct 2017

On Monday October 19th, 1987, the Dow Jones fell 508 points in a one day crash that will forever be ...

Mon, 09 Oct 2017

"Liquidity" is one of the most widely-talked about yet least understood concepts in markets. Roughly...

Mon, 02 Oct 2017

The world of sell-side analysts has been upended in recent years with intense competition, new techn...

Mon, 25 Sep 2017

To wrap up our series on financial bubbles, the Odd Lots podcast looks back at an early episode, foc...

Mon, 18 Sep 2017

There's a good chance that if you were a boy in the early 90s that you were a collector of baseball ...

Mon, 11 Sep 2017

The tulip bubble is the quintessential bubble. If you want to call something a bubble, just mutter s...

Mon, 04 Sep 2017

During the 2008 financial crisis, Florida was an epicenter of the real estate meltdown. But for deca...

Mon, 28 Aug 2017

Markets are at their most exciting when they're in a bubble. Spectacular fortunes can be made and lo...

Mon, 21 Aug 2017

Royal Bank of Scotland has been around, in one form or another, for hundreds of years. The company k...

Mon, 14 Aug 2017

It's been 10 years since the start of the credit crunch that eventually led to the global financial ...

Mon, 07 Aug 2017

We use money everyday, but it's rare to actually think about what money is or what it represents. An...

Mon, 31 Jul 2017

Most people have some kind of hazy conception of how the stock market works. Stocks are simple to un...

Mon, 24 Jul 2017

We talk a lot on Odd Lots about the idea of investing. But what's it like to actually have to put mo...

Mon, 17 Jul 2017

Financial markets around the world are stuck in a long period of low volatility and boredom. But one...

Mon, 10 Jul 2017

It's no secret that a lot of people in finance like to bet on things. But how many of them take the ...

Mon, 03 Jul 2017

Earlier this month, Dana Gas, a UAE-based company, rocked the world of Islamic finance by announcing...

Fri, 23 Jun 2017

On the TV show "Billions," one of the most important characters is Wendy Rhoades, the psychologist a...

Fri, 16 Jun 2017

By now everyone's heard of Bitcoin, and probably has an opinion on it. But the world of cryptocurren...

Fri, 09 Jun 2017

America has had many well-known booms and busts in its history: Real estate, internet stocks, Beanie...

Fri, 02 Jun 2017

For the past few years, everyone in markets has been talking about nothing. Market moves have been s...

Fri, 26 May 2017

Phil Hellmuth is one of poker's biggest stars. His success is undeniable, as he's won 14 bracelets a...

Fri, 19 May 2017

It's no secret that international trade has been criticized lately. But why exactly are countries ge...

Fri, 12 May 2017

Avocado toast, unicorn frappuccinos, and kale salads. Taking photos of your food and putting them on...

Fri, 05 May 2017

When you think about the Middle East what springs to mind? Perhaps oil, maybe political instability,...

Fri, 28 Apr 2017

On this week's episode of the Odd Lots podcast, we talk to Hikaru Nakamura, one of the best chess pl...

Fri, 21 Apr 2017

When most people analyze the stock market, they look at stuff like revenues, earnings, valuations, a...

Thu, 13 Apr 2017

What if you woke up tomorrow and found the U.S. stock market was closed for good? That happened to i...

Fri, 07 Apr 2017

History, as you may have heard, has a tendency to repeat. But does it repeat in ways that are measur...

Fri, 31 Mar 2017

One of the most fascinating market phenomenons is the bubble. When they occur, fortunes are made and...

Mon, 27 Mar 2017

Plenty of people pay their kids an allowance to teach them the value of hard work and earning money....

Fri, 24 Mar 2017

"Buy local" is a mantra that has appeal across the political spectrum. Small communities have preach...

Fri, 10 Mar 2017

A few weeks ago on the Odd Lots podcast, we talked to Paul Schmelzing, a Ph.D candidate at Harvard, ...

Fri, 03 Mar 2017

If you have any interest at all in finance, then it's mandatory to have seen the 1983 movie "Trading...

Fri, 24 Feb 2017

There's a widespread sense that something remains broken in the global economy. Despite a comeback i...

Fri, 17 Feb 2017

Among the biggest trends in the world of markets is the rise of passive investing. Rather than pay h...

Fri, 10 Feb 2017

Creating a new form of money is always tough. Will it hold its value? Will people trust it? Will peo...

Fri, 03 Feb 2017

There are all sorts of reasons why markets break down. A lack of trust. Incomplete information. Dive...

Fri, 27 Jan 2017

It's almost a truism that better-educated people earn more money. But suppose you're not interested ...

Fri, 20 Jan 2017

The Islamic State is mostly discussed in terms of its threat to the safety and security of the world...

Fri, 13 Jan 2017

The stock market is currently in one of its longest bull markets ever, but that doesn't hold a candl...

Fri, 06 Jan 2017

Welcome to the start of the new year! 2016 defied almost everyone's expectations, but that won't sto...

Fri, 23 Dec 2016

It was quite a year, 2016! Trump and Brexit alone made it one for the history books. But there was m...

Fri, 16 Dec 2016

One of our favorite topics here at Odd Lots is market structure. On multiple occasions, for example,...

Fri, 09 Dec 2016

What's the optimum amount of money you should bet on a particular outcome? The answer is dictated by...

Fri, 02 Dec 2016

Something huge happened in November. No, we're not talking about the U.S. presidential election. We ...

Fri, 25 Nov 2016

By now you've probably heard of Bitcoin. But Bitcoin isn't the only digital currency. In fact, there...

Fri, 18 Nov 2016

All great civilizations eventually collapse. It's inevitable. So what are the signs of their demise?...

Fri, 11 Nov 2016

There's a lot to process from last week's U.S. election. One surprising thing already is the market ...

Fri, 04 Nov 2016

One could argue that "expert" has become a bad word. People routinely roll their eyes at the advice ...

Fri, 28 Oct 2016

Investors are often said to exhibit herding behavior when they follow each other into crowded positi...

Fri, 21 Oct 2016

Dani Rodrik, a professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University, was writing about...

Fri, 14 Oct 2016

What does psychoanalytic philosophy tell us about capitalism? In this edition of Odd Lots, we speak ...

Wed, 12 Oct 2016

Brad Katsuyama has racked up oceans of newspaper ink since being propelled into the public spotlight...

Mon, 03 Oct 2016

How is it that stocks are traded on electronic exchanges in the blink of an eye but bonds still trad...

Fri, 23 Sep 2016

"Disruption," "incubation," "innovation"... you hear these words nonstop these days as people talk a...

Fri, 16 Sep 2016

The most valuable commodity for investors is information, and hedge funds and asset managers are goi...

Mon, 12 Sep 2016

Could you walk away from a reward of over $8 million? The guest on our latest episode of the Odd Lot...

Fri, 02 Sep 2016

"What is money?" This seemingly simple question has the ability to drive people crazy. Is it a unit ...

Mon, 29 Aug 2016

The hit show Seinfeld is often referred to as the show about nothing, but maybe it's actually a show...

Mon, 22 Aug 2016

In developed economies, younger generations have faced stagnant wages, mediocre employment prospects...

Mon, 15 Aug 2016

The 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro have been tainted by protests, economic slowdown, and a m...

Mon, 08 Aug 2016

This week is the summer edition of Odd Lots and we're talking about the market forces shaping the pr...

Fri, 29 Jul 2016

This week Odd Lots takes to the high seas to discuss how modern-day pirates in the form of illegal f...

Mon, 25 Jul 2016

There's nothing better than financial crisis hindsight and earlier this month we got a big dose of i...

Mon, 18 Jul 2016

The result of the U.K.'s Brexit referendum blindsided many and led to acrimonious accusations by sup...

Mon, 11 Jul 2016

Emanuel Derman was one of the pioneers of quantitative finance, having gone from studying physics to...

Mon, 11 Jul 2016

Emanuel Derman was one of the pioneers of quantitative finance, having gone from studying physics to...

Fri, 01 Jul 2016

In the runup to the Brexit vote polls were mixed. Some showed remain winning. Others showed leave wi...

Mon, 27 Jun 2016

On this week's episode we take a trip down one particular road on the Gulf peninsula to explore how ...

Mon, 20 Jun 2016

When Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen speaks, the world watches — and one group watches especial...

Mon, 13 Jun 2016

The Great Recession was characterized by a historic and gigantic wave of foreclosures all around the...

Mon, 06 Jun 2016

David Hendler made his reputation as a bank analyst at the independent research firm CreditSights In...

Fri, 27 May 2016

The U.S. spends 8 percent of its GDP on finance -- twice the amount it did 40 years ago, according t...

Mon, 23 May 2016

At a time when retail sales are dominated by online behemoths like Amazon Inc. and big chain stores,...

Fri, 13 May 2016

Peer-to-peer lending was supposed to disrupt the traditional way people borrowed money. Instead of g...

Wed, 04 May 2016

If you're like most people, you only bet on horses once a year, the day of the Kentucky Derby. You m...

Mon, 02 May 2016