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 transcribedAnyone who watched poker on TV during the golden age of coverage a few years ago is familiar with Annie Duke. She's one of the most famous poker playe...
Quantitative finance is red hot. These days, basically everyone (banks, hedge funds etc.) is hiring mathematicians and coders. So what differentiates...
If you cover the economy from New York City or Abu Dhabi, it's easy to get caught up in a media bubble. But the U.S. economy is obviously not a monoli...
When we think about financial assets, we usually think of their price as being derived from some set of intrinsic characteristics. A stock price may b...
For centuries, markets were highly-personalized things, often controlled by select groups of people who traded based on long-established and closely-k...
We talk a lot about bubbles on this podcast. Often we talk about them from the perspective of a trader or speculator. But what about the people whose...
On last week's episode of Odd Lots, Bloomberg's Chris Nagi and Matt Boesler gave us their takes for the biggest stories of the past year. So naturally...
The year is over, and now's the time to look back at the big stories of the past year. On this week's episode, we're joined by Chris Nagi and Matt Boe...
Algorithms. People talk about them all the time, particularly in relation to markets. But who actually designs them, and what do they do? On this week...
When we think of computer-driven or "quant" investing, we often think fast moves, algorithms making buy and sell orders at incredibly short timeframes...
There are two popular schools of thought with regards to how markets work. There's the efficient markets hypothesis (EMH) which says that it's basical...
Money goes where it's treated best. That simple truth is a big reason why more and more money—trillions, in fact—flows into a powerful, low-cost tool...
This month we saw a small sell-off in markets that got big attention. How did we get to the point where a 1 percent fall in the S&P 500 over the c...
In this age of algorithms and quants, you hear less and less about good old stock picking. You know, like the style of investing associated with Warre...
Most asset classes move in a fairly straightforward manner. They're either going up or down at any given time. But when it comes to currencies it's no...
You can't go a day without hearing about ICOs or Initial Coin Offerings. By taking advantage of a regulatory gap and buzz surrounding cryptocurrencies...
Investors are constantly poring over income statements from big companies to figure out whether they should buy or sell the business's stock. But shou...
By now, almost everyone in financial markets is familiar with ETFs (exchange-traded funds), and how they allow investors to move quickly in and out of...
On Monday October 19th, 1987, the Dow Jones fell 508 points in a one day crash that will forever be known as "Black Monday". In honor of the 30th anni...
"Liquidity" is one of the most widely-talked about yet least understood concepts in markets. Roughly speaking, a market is liquid if you can transact...
