Odd Lots podcast

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Odd Lots

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Bloomberg's Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway explore the most interesting topics in finance, markets and economics. Join the conversation every Monday, Thursday, and Friday

Bloomberg's Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway explore the most interesting topics in finance, markets and economics. Join the conversation every Monday, Thursday, and Friday

 

#1282

How Airlines Actually Hedge Higher Fuel Prices

Fuel is a huge expense for airlines, and even on a good day, jet fuel prices are pretty vo... more

Yesterday

53 MINS

53:31

Yesterday


#1281

Everything in Markets Is Now Moving Incredibly Fast

The market is acting in ways that make it very hard to get a handle on what exactly is goi... more

01 Oct 2026

44 MINS

44:18

01 Oct 2026


#1280

Why Building a Crosswalk in LA Is Kafkaesque

Bill McBride did not just predict the 2008 housing bubble, he helped invent financial blog... more

28 Sep 2026

21 MINS

21:58

28 Sep 2026


#1279

Hollywood Was Cooked Before AI, and Now It's Only Getting Worse

Is Hollywood just screwed? Writers are earning less. There are fewer shoots taking place i... more

25 Sep 2026

32 MINS

32:07

25 Sep 2026


#1278

AI Is Upending the Lives of People Who Do Social Media Professionally

Social media is really strange these days: Increasingly, our feeds are starting to look un... more

24 Sep 2026

27 MINS

27:36

24 Sep 2026


#1277

How LA Is Quietly Becoming America's New Industrial Tech Hub

The story you hear nowadays is that America is struggling to make things and can't compete... more

21 Sep 2026

36 MINS

36:04

21 Sep 2026


#1276

Introducing: Bloomberg Money

Bloomberg Money takes the pulse of your financial life, powered by the reporting of our gl... more

20 Sep 2026

00 MINS

00:30

20 Sep 2026


#1275

A Goldman M&A Banker Helped Bring the Olympics to Los Angeles

We're in an era of megadeals, with Goldman Sachs reporting a record year for big deal volu... more

19 Sep 2026

32 MINS

32:51

19 Sep 2026


#1274

There's a Mind-Boggling Number of Rich People in America

In 2014, the economists Owen Zidar and Eric Zwick were asked by the Treasury to conduct a ... more

18 Sep 2026

59 MINS

59:44

18 Sep 2026


#1273

What Francis Fukuyama Is Seeing at 'The End of History'

Francis Fukuyama's essay “The End of History?” was published in the summer of ... more

17 Sep 2026

54 MINS

54:24

17 Sep 2026


#1272

OpenAI President Greg Brockman on Doing Business in the Wake of Hugging Face

According to OpenAI President Greg Brockman, the models that escaped their sandbox and hac... more

14 Sep 2026

1 HR 02 MINS

1:02:51

14 Sep 2026


#1271

Robert Friedland on the World's Monumental Shortage of Copper

Copper demand is booming, with the metal surging another 15% this year. Copper demand has ... more

12 Sep 2026

1 HR 09 MINS

1:09:54

12 Sep 2026


#1270

Why Bridgewater's CIO Says AI's Human Extinction Risk Is Real

Greg Jensen was one of the earliest backers of both OpenAI and Anthropic, and at Bridgewat... more

11 Sep 2026

1 HR 05 MINS

1:05:21

11 Sep 2026


#1269

The Rise of Organized Retail Crime at Big Box Stores

If you walk into a local pharmacy in New York City, more likely than not, lots of the merc... more

10 Sep 2026

52 MINS

52:39

10 Sep 2026


#1268

Why Money Launderers Love $100 Bills

Hardly anyone nowadays seems to carry much cash, never mind carrying around a bunch of $10... more

07 Sep 2026

54 MINS

54:31

07 Sep 2026


#1267

Why Laser Beams Are the Hottest New Tech in Defense

Our guest today is Colonel Sanders. More precisely, we speak with Wayne Sanders, a retired... more

04 Sep 2026

53 MINS

53:17

04 Sep 2026


#1266

What's Behind the Big Surge in US Government Bond Yields

Global bond yields are at their highest level since 2008, with the 30-year US Treasury tou... more

03 Sep 2026

36 MINS

36:36

03 Sep 2026


#1265

Adam Posen Thinks Things Could Get Very 'Messy' for the Fed

Kevin Warsh gave a hawkish speech at this year's annual Kansas City Fed Symposium in Jacks... more

01 Sep 2026

59 MINS

59:42

01 Sep 2026


#1264

Richmond Fed’s Tom Barkin on the Surprisingly Resilient Real Economy

The implications of Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's Jackson Hole speech are pretty clear: Traders ... more

31 Aug 2026

31 MINS

31:17

31 Aug 2026


#1263

Austan Goolsbee Is Worried the Economy Is Overheating

Inflation remains high and the 2% target is farther away than it was this time last year. ... more

28 Aug 2026

46 MINS

46:31

28 Aug 2026


#1262

Kansas City Fed President Jeffrey Schmid on the First Jackson Hole of the Warsh Era

We are back in Jackson Hole! And this year's Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City symposium... more

27 Aug 2026

28 MINS

28:56

27 Aug 2026


#1261

The Nigerian Industrial Behemoth That Could Reshape the African Economy

Earlier in August, it was reported that Nigeria's Dangote Refinery secured a $1 billion un... more

24 Aug 2026

58 MINS

58:19

24 Aug 2026