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
1219 episodes transcribedThe coronavirus crisis snarled global shipping in early 2020 as borders were closed, but lots of people expected it to improve as vessels returned to...
The U.S. was once a manufacturing leader in semiconductors. That's no longer the case, given the rise of contract manufacturing and outsourcing, the d...
One of the surprising developments in the last year was the boom in SPACs. The so-called blank check companies raised more money in 2020 than they had...
We're in a rare moment where chess is popular in the United States. There are two big factors driving it. One is the smash hit Netflix show "The Queen...
It's been pointed out that, after the Black Death in Europe, real wages surged because there was such a shortage of labor in the aftermath. But what w...
Economics is all about improving living standards, but rarely does the dismal science deal with social justice or talk about how a lack of it could ac...
2020 has been an absolutely extraordinary year for the economy. In March, we saw the fastest economic contraction in history with an extraordinary sur...
This past summer, the business intelligence software company MicroStrategy made waves when it put some of its extra cash into Bitcoin. Then, as Bitcoi...
We talk a lot about quantitative trading on the podcast, but typically from a rather big picture perspective, and not at the level of actually buildin...
On a recent episode of Odd Lots, we talked about Intel, and how the former dominant American semiconductor company was stumbling. But big things are h...
It's obviously been an extraordinary year for markets and the economy for reasons that don't need stating at this point. But what does 2021 have in st...
It's no secret that some African nations went on a borrowing spree in recent years, tapping both international markets and sovereign lenders such as C...
For years, the IMF was generally of the view that free trade was good, and that open capital flows were also good. But in recent years, the latter vie...
With developed economies still operating well below pre-crisis levels, central banks face substantial pressure to pursue stimulative policies on an on...
For years, Intel has been the pre-eminent U.S. semiconductor company. But lately, the company has stumbled. This past summer, shares in the company pl...
There are many similarities between cryptocurrencies and social networks. And the rise of payment apps like Venmo make the link between payments and s...
Traditional quant strategies that try to screen for stocks that are "cheap" have had an extremely rough period. So is this just a temporary setback th...
Bitcoin has been on a tear lately, but it's been a bit unclear as to what's driving it. But whatever's driving it, co-host Tracy Alloway has given up...
The politics of taxes are always fraught. In theory, everyone wants to pay less of them and bristle at the prospect of paying more. But it turns out t...
Investors have always had to pay attention to what's going on in Washington DC, but this year it's been on a whole new level. Between virus response p...
