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1219 episodes transcribedWith major economies around the world coming to a screeching halt, emerging markets are in a squeeze of historic proportions. Not only are they being...
Commerce and payments are increasingly digital. This shift from physical to electronic is one that governments and businesses are eager to accelerate...
At the end of March, Congress passed the CARES Act in an attempt to mitigate some of the massive economic devastation being caused by the coronavirus...
With the U.S. economy going into a deep slump, the Federal government has attempted to counteract the pain by increasing spending. But for cities and...
Earlier this year on Odd Lots, we did an episode about Korean structured investment products that were sold to retail investors, whose performance was...
The commercial real estate market has been clobbered in this crisis, as restaurants and stores virtually shut down entirely throughout the month of Ma...
The plumbing of the financial system is coming under strain like never before. On this week’s podcast, we speak with two legendary experts on how the...
In normal times, U.S. Treasuries are the ultimate safe haven. They are highly liquid and guaranteed to pay out. So when people want to hide out during...
For a long time, people have been warning that corporate debt could be the major source of vulnerability in today's economy. And the market meltdown t...
Markets around the world are so extremely volatile that nobody can think of any perfect precedent. There are shades of the Great Recession, 1987, the...
Saudi Arabia recently announced that it was engaging in a full-on price war by pumping oil like crazy. At one point, after the move, the price of Bren...
The U.S. is on the verge of an economic crisis due to the coronavirus, as people and businesses aggressively pull back on spending. On this week's Odd...
Questions continue to arise over the effect of passive investing, and whether or not it's somehow distorting the market. On this week's episode, we sp...
In recent weeks, before the stock market plunged, a page on reddit called r/WallStreetBets suddenly started exhibiting enormous influence on a handful...
There are lots of famous debt crises in history, but the story of Iraq's government debt build-up in the 1980s and subsequent restructuring in the ear...
Apple's recent revenue warning reminded the world of how exposed the company is to China, and in particular its factories. As the coronavirus continue...
One of the best recent movies was Uncut Gems, in which Adam Sandler plays a Diamond District jeweler with an addiction to gambling and risk. It turns...
Back in 2017, the World Bank issued the world's first pandemic bonds. The bonds are meant to shift some of the financial risk of a global pandemic on...
Over the last decade or so, we've seen an incredible rise in so-called passive investing. While definitions differ over what this means, we've seen mo...
There's a growing consensus that governments need to act more aggressively in using fiscal policy to stave off the next recession, and that monetary p...
