Introducing: Business of Bees
09 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
These days about one in three bites of food you eat wouldn’t be possible without commercial bee po...
How A Poker Pro 'Reads' His Opponents
06 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Whenever poker is depicted on a TV show or in a movie there's a lot of emphasis placed on the art an...
What Will Crypto’s Market Structure Look Like?
29 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Recently, the cryptocurrency exchange Binance delisted a Bitcoin offshoot, causing its price to fall...
The End of An Era for Odd Lots
22 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
No, no, don't worry, the Odd Lots podcast isn't coming to an end. But for actual odd lots -- trades ...
Introducing "What Goes Up," A New Show From Bloomberg
17 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On this new show from Bloomberg, hosts Mike Regan and Sarah Ponczek speak with expert guests each we...
Why Foreign Investors Cooled On U.S. Debt
15 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
There's something wrong with prices in funding and bond markets, according to this week's Odd Lots g...
MMT And Emerging Markets
08 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In discussions about Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) you often hear that while it may be true that the ...
From MMT Advocate To Outspoken Critic
01 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Cullen Roche, the author of the financial blog Pragmatic Capitalism, explains why he went from an ad...
A Critic of Cryptocurrencies Says Bitcoin Needs To Be Burnt With Fire
25 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
There's a problem in many debates about cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. While many peopl...
The Evolution Of The Online Brokerage Business
18 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The online brokerage business burst on the scene in the late 90s, as at-home traders were lured to t...
What's Next For Chinese Trade Talks
11 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
China is front and center in the news again, thanks to the trade negotiations, as well as the Nation...
Canada's Cannabis Market So Far
04 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In mid-October last year, recreational cannabis became legal in Canada. Of course, there are all kin...
How To Analyze An IPO
25 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Some of Silicon Valley's biggest unicorns like Uber and Slack are expected to go public this year. B...
Tech Stock Bubbles In the 17th Century
18 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jamie Catherwood is an investment analyst at Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. He's also a major financi...
A Message from The Pay Check
13 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Pay Check is collecting stories for our upcoming season, and we want to hear from you! Did havin...
Understanding The Big Tech Stocks
11 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For years, the key to beating the stock market was to invest a lot in the big tech stocks like Faceb...
What To Know Ahead Of India's Election
04 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
India is going to have a general election in the months ahead, and so it's important to understand t...
How Does The Chinese Economy Work?
28 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Boesler, an economics reporter for Bloomberg, had the opportunity to report from Beijing for a ...
The 1MDB Scandal And The Nature of Debt
21 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
At the heart of government debt is a promise to pay back creditors. But governments sometimes don't ...
Making Bitcoin A Currency People Use
14 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Even at Bitcoin’s recent peak, there was very little active use of the cryptocurrency in normal co...
Introducing "Works For Me," A New Podcast From Bloomberg
09 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On this new show from Bloomberg, hosts Francesca Levy and Rebecca Greenfield navigate the productivi...
He Rode The Bitcoin Boom All The Way Up, And Down
07 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The last two years have been an extraordinary ride for Bitcoin. It exploded in 2017, with the price ...
This is What Traders Will Be Watching In 2019
31 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
After a volatile 2018, few people in the market expect calm to return anytime soon. Politics, the Fe...
These Were The Most Important Stories for Traders In 2018
24 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
2018 will go down as one of the most pivotal for financial markets since the financial crisis. We sa...
How Passive Investing Could Change Capitalism
17 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The biggest macro trend in investing is the rise of so-called "passive investing." But while this ma...
The Market's Big Bet on Low Volatility
10 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The past couple months have seen the return of volatility in markets. On this edition of Odd Lots, w...
How To Analyze The Currency Markets
03 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With assets like stocks and bonds, there are clear techniques you can use to value them. But what ab...
How Paul Volcker Views His Life
26 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Volcker is widely-regarded as single-handedly halting a period of severe inflation in the U.S. ...
Why Blockchain May Never Benefit Corporations
19 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For years, a common mantra among corporate executives has been that "the blockchain," the technology...
This Is How The Unicorn Bubble Will Burst
12 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
So-called "unicorns" have become household names in recent years. Multi-billion dollar companies lik...
Travel Genius, a New Show From Bloomberg
06 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What’s the most sure-fire way to get a flight upgrade? How can you find the best, secret local res...
How The Original Rogue Trader Rebuilt His Life
05 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
If there's one person associated with the term "Rogue Trader" it's Nick Leeson, who singlehandedly b...
Prognosis, a New Show From Bloomberg
02 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Where does a medical cure come from? 100 years ago, it wasn't uncommon for scientists to test medici...
Why Eurodollars Might Be Ground Zero for De-Globalization
29 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Eurodollars have nothing to do with the euro-dollar exchange rate. Instead, they're effectively a so...
Coming Soon: The New Economy
24 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Bloomberg’s head of economics Stephanie Flanders calls on Bloomberg's worldwide network of reporte...
What Will China’s Economy Look Like In 10 Years?
22 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
China has a plan for how it wants to transform into a modern economy. But the future of China’s ec...
Coming Soon: The ETF Story
19 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The creation story of the first exchange-traded fund is actually the best way to understand how they...
How To Analyze A Marijuana Stock
15 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Marijuana stocks have been on a tear recently, as investors bet on the explosion of a brand new, leg...
Saudi Arabia's IPO Drama
08 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A little over two years ago, Saudi Arabia revealed plans to IPO part of its huge state-owned nationa...
What David Barse Learned From Watching A Credit Fund Blow Up
01 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
David Barse was the CEO of Third Avenue Management when one of its credit funds melted down in late ...
How To Create The Safest Bank In America
24 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What if there were a bank that could never experience a run? And furthermore, what if it paid higher...
What Investors Should Know About The Correlation Between Bonds And Stocks
17 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sixty percent in equities/40 percent in bonds is a popular, general approach to structuring a divers...
A Forensic Accounting Expert Explains How Companies Trick Investors
10 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Companies have all kinds of discretion in how they recognize revenue and costs. Some of this is legi...
Matt Levine Dissects Elon Musk's Controversial Tweet
04 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
There's been an intense debate about what Tesla CEO Elon Musk meant when he tweeted in early August ...
The Time One Of Our Co-Hosts Launched His Own Cryptocurrency
27 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Weisenthal is a co-host of the Odd Lots podcast. He also once launched his own cryptocurrency ca...
An Emerging Markets Fund Manager Describes What's Happening In Turkey Right Now
20 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Are you confused about the crisis in Turkey? Today's episode will get you cleared up. This week on O...
How Wall Street Started Selling You Financial Products
13 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Open any financial publication and you'll see ads for investment products: exchange-traded funds, mu...
How A Post-Keynesian Economist Sees The Markets Right Now
06 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Srinivas Thiruvadanthai is the Director of Research at the Jerome Levy Forecasting Center, and one o...
Even The World's Greatest Investors Have Made Horrible Mistakes
30 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Here's some good news for investors: If you've ever made a disastrous trade, you're not alone. All o...
Why Understanding Financial Fraud Is The Secret To Understanding Business
23 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
If you want to understand how the human body works, you can't just look at healthy humans. You need ...
How to Listen to What the Market Is Trying to Tell You
16 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For years, it was pretty quiet in markets. Stocks kept making new highs and volatility drifted to fr...
This Is What's Actually Happening When The Government Auctions Bonds
09 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks to the tax cuts, the U.S. deficit is expected to surge again. And of course that's brought gr...
The Internet Is Secretly Powered By Billions Of Tiny Auctions
02 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone knows that online advertising pays for a massive chunk of the internet that people know and...
The Creator of VaR Explains How Large Banks Measure The Risk Of Their Own Portfolios
25 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this year, markets were spooked by blow-ups in a number of volatility-linked products. But d...
Meet The Chicago Floor Trader Who Helped Inspire The Tea Party Movement
18 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A pivotal moment in U.S. political history is when CNBC's Rick Santelli went on a gigantic rant agai...
The Inventor Of 'Bond Vigilantes' Explains Why They Just Showed Up In Italy
11 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Longtime market analyst Ed Yardeni came up with the term "Bond Vigilantes" to describe the way bond ...
This Is How The Chocolate Market Actually Works
04 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When you're eating a chocolate bar, there's a good chance you're not thinking about the complex comm...
What the Finance Industry's All-Night Scavenger Hunt Is Actually Like
28 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For years, big banks, hedge funds and other investment firms took part in an epic scavenger hunt in ...
This Is China's Plan To Be A Technology Powerhouse By The Year 2025
21 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The recent trade tensions between the Trump administration and China has shone a light on the countr...
Inside the Multi-Year Quest to Create a Bitcoin ETF
14 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When Bitcoin first began generating headlines, there were some who thought the cryptocurrency was a ...
Bonus: The Pay Check, a New Podcast
09 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a big, expensive, global mystery. Why do women still make less money—a lot less—than men?...
This Is How The Paparazzi Business Really Works
07 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Everybody probably has some vague idea of what the paparazzi do. They ride around on motorcycles, ho...
These Stories Of Horse Racing Gamblers Will Get You Psyched For The Kentucky Derby
30 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Kentucky Derby is coming up in early May, and it's time to get excited. On this week's Odd Lots ...
Why The Entire Way We Talk About Millennials Is Wrong
23 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to millennials, the media has certain tropes that it likes to go back to. Millennials ...
We're Nominated For A Webby Award, And We Need Your Help!
16 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We've been nominated for a Webby Award in the business podcast category, and we need the support of ...
Why A Florida Orange Grove In 1946 Is The Key To Understanding Regulation Of ICOs
16 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
By now, everyone's heard of ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings) where companies issue their own currency-l...
This Is What A Trade War With China Would Actually Look Like
09 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Recent threats to impose tariffs on Chinese goods, coupled with China's own retaliatory announcement...
An Economist Explains Why Losing Weight Is Kind Of Like Defeating Inflation
02 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A lot of people would probably agree that there's something wrong with much of the traditional advic...
The World's Most Controversial Interest Rate Is Haunting Us Again
26 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Remember LIBOR? The London Interbank Offered Rate measures the cost of money when banks borrow from ...
What It Was Like In The Glory Days Of Trading Currencies In The Pits
19 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
These days, when you think of trading, you think of people sitting at a desk with a bunch of monitor...
For The First Time In Years, Why People Are Suddenly Talking About Inflation Again
12 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For years, nobody seemed particularly concerned about inflation. Outside of a few blips, in the wake...
Why The Human Brain Loves To Be Lied To
05 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In theory, people should want to know accurate facts about the state of the world. In practice, it's...
Coming Soon: Decrypted Season 2
27 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Decrypted returns on March 6th with a brand new season. Here's a sneak peek of what's in store. We'l...
The NYC Fiscal Crisis Of The 1970s Has Some Important Lessons For Today
26 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1970s, NYC teetered on the verge of bankruptcy. This crisis lead to the dismantling of the ci...
How One Of The Most Profitable Trades Of The Last Few Years Blew Up In A Single Day
19 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years, one of the easiest ways to make money in this market has been to bet on low volatil...
Coming Soon: What'd You Miss This Week
12 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This month, Bloomberg is excited to bring you a brand new show. Every Friday on What'd You Miss This...
Annie Duke Explains How To Apply Poker Skills To Markets And Other Business Decisions
12 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Anyone who watched poker on TV during the golden age of coverage a few years ago is familiar with An...
Why One Of The Most Successful Quant Funds Decided To Create Its Own Video Game
06 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Quantitative finance is red hot. These days, basically everyone (banks, hedge funds etc.) is hiring ...
How The Opioid Crisis And The Trump Administration Are Changing Middle America's Economy
29 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
If you cover the economy from New York City or Abu Dhabi, it's easy to get caught up in a media bubb...
How Radical Demographic Shifts Around The World Are Changing How Assets Are Valued
22 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When we think about financial assets, we usually think of their price as being derived from some set...
This Explains Why Modern Markets Developed Where They Did
15 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For centuries, markets were highly-personalized things, often controlled by select groups of people ...
This Is What It Was Actually Like To Live Through The Tech Bubble
08 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We talk a lot about bubbles on this podcast. Often we talk about them from the perspective of a trad...
These Will Be The Big Markets And Economics Stories In 2018
02 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On last week's episode of Odd Lots, Bloomberg's Chris Nagi and Matt Boesler gave us their takes for ...
These Were The Biggest Markets And Economics Stories of 2017
26 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The year is over, and now's the time to look back at the big stories of the past year. On this week'...
This Is How Algorithms Impact Every Aspect Of Our Lives, from News to Credit Scores to Stocks
18 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Algorithms. People talk about them all the time, particularly in relation to markets. But who actual...
Two Researchers Explain How Quants Are Going To Revolutionize Long-Term Investing
11 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
When we think of computer-driven or "quant" investing, we often think fast moves, algorithms making ...
An MIT Professor Explains His Original Theory For How Markets Really Work
04 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
There are two popular schools of thought with regards to how markets work. There's the efficient mar...
Coming Soon: Trillions, a New Podcast
28 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Money goes where it's treated best. That simple truth is a big reason why more and more money—tril...
Why Historic Relationships in Markets Have Been Totally Upended
27 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This month we saw a small sell-off in markets that got big attention. How did we get to the point wh...
The World's Foremost Expert Explains How To Value Stock
20 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this age of algorithms and quants, you hear less and less about good old stock picking. You know,...
This Is How a Currency Trader Actually Picks What to Buy and Sell
13 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Most asset classes move in a fairly straightforward manner. They're either going up or down at any g...
History Has Some Ominous Warnings for Investors in Initial Coin Offerings
06 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
You can't go a day without hearing about ICOs or Initial Coin Offerings. By taking advantage of a re...
Everything You've Been Taught About How to Value a Stock Might Be Wrong
30 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Investors are constantly poring over income statements from big companies to figure out whether they...
ETFs Are Eating the Financial World and They're Not Done Yet
23 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
By now, almost everyone in financial markets is familiar with ETFs (exchange-traded funds), and how ...
How One Trader Won Big While Everyone Else Panicked on Black Monday
16 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On Monday October 19th, 1987, the Dow Jones fell 508 points in a one day crash that will forever be ...
What We Can Learn About Market Liquidity By Looking At Everyday Life
09 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
"Liquidity" is one of the most widely-talked about yet least understood concepts in markets. Roughly...
Inside the Changing World of the Sell-Side Analyst
02 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The world of sell-side analysts has been upended in recent years with intense competition, new techn...
Revisiting The Strange Story Behind the Beanie Babies Bubble
25 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
To wrap up our series on financial bubbles, the Odd Lots podcast looks back at an early episode, foc...
The Baseball Card Bubble Can Tell You A Surprising Amount About How Markets Work
18 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
There's a good chance that if you were a boy in the early 90s that you were a collector of baseball ...
How an Austrian Economist Explains The Tulip Bubble
11 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The tulip bubble is the quintessential bubble. If you want to call something a bubble, just mutter s...