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 transcribedEven before Trump's victory in 2024, it was becoming clear that the Fed would come under political pressure like never before. The first year of the n...
For a long time, you could make plenty of money and sleep easy at night with a simple 60/40 portfolio. You put 60% of your money in stocks and 40% in...
In some sense, the arrest of Maduro is nothing unusual. For over 200 years, the US viewed the entirety of the Western hemisphere as its legitimate dom...
There are a bunch of questions right now about the future of Venezuela, and one of the big ones is what's going to happen to its circa $170 billion pi...
Venezuela is sitting on, by some measures, the biggest oil reserves in the world. And yet, in the immediate wake of Maduro's capture by US forces, the...
Every year, regional Federal Reserve banks host some of the most substantive — and under-the-radar — events in the central banking world:...
When the Odd Lots team was down in Washington DC earlier this year, we had a phenomenal meal at a restaurant called Butterworth's. As it turns out, th...
It's that time of the year. On this episode, Tracy and Joe answer questions from listeners that were submitted via voice note. We talk about everythin...
2025 was an extraordinary year, with the real economy defying recession worries and equity markets putting up monster returns. So can this be repeated...
Hello Odd Lots listeners! As we take a break for the holidays we'd like to take a moment and bring you an episode by one of our sister shows here at B...
If you're a high-skilled tech worker, then potentially huge fortunes await you working for a startup or one of our booming AI giants. But the governme...
By and large, American households are in a healthy economic position. Yes, unemployment has been rising, but it's still at fairly low levels. Consumer...
You probably already know someone doing peptides — the amino acids that form the basis of popular new drug treatments like Ozempic and Wegovy. T...
The politics of AI are already exploding. Whether we're talking about data centers, electricity prices, labor displacement, water consumption, competi...
When we think about America’s economic rise, we usually point to agriculture or the industrial revolution. But in the early days of colonization...
Most people think of venture capital as funding software startups or, these days, some new AI tool. But VC also plays a major role in developing new m...
Data centers are weird things. They're partly real estate assets. They're partly extremely advanced technological products. And they have to find a wa...
In the years since the financial crisis, bond investors didn't get much return for taking on risk. With low interest rates and little sign of inflatio...
Excel. If you work in corporate America, that word either inspires laser-focused productivity or pure dread. Over the last 40 years, the spreadsh...
Max Levchin probably knows as much about online payments as anyone. He was part of the original "PayPal mafia" before going on to become co-founder an...
