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Odd Lots

Bloomberg's Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway explore the most interesting topics in finance, markets and economics. Join the conversation every Monday and Thursday.

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This Is How the World Ended up with a Shortage of Semiconductors

This Is How the World Ended up with a Shortage of Semiconductors

The world is facing a chip shortage. Numerous companies, including the auto sector, are facing an inability to get semic... Read more

22 Feb 2021

45mins

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52: What Math Models of Herding Cows Can Teach Us About Markets

52: What Math Models of Herding Cows Can Teach Us About Markets

Investors are often said to exhibit herding behavior when they follow each other into crowded positions — creating marke... Read more

28 Oct 2016

31mins

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How A New Type Of Money Helped Cause The Great Financial Crisis

How A New Type Of Money Helped Cause The Great Financial Crisis

It's fun to talk about what money is, but often it's hard to connect the dots and make it actually relevant to the discu... Read more

7 Sep 2020

44mins

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How Online Dating Is Reshaping the Entire Economy

How Online Dating Is Reshaping the Entire Economy

By this point, everybody knows that online dating is a massive phenomenon, reshaping the social habits of the young and ... Read more

16 Dec 2019

48mins

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The Millennial Generation Is Stagnant And Older People Are Part

The Millennial Generation Is Stagnant And Older People Are Part

In developed economies, younger generations have faced stagnant wages, mediocre employment prospects and dizzying costs ... Read more

22 Aug 2016

26mins

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The ECB’s Former Vice-President Explains The Historic Step That Europe Just Took

The ECB’s Former Vice-President Explains The Historic Step That Europe Just Took

For years, people have identified the lack of fiscal transfers and fiscal burden sharing as one of the glaring architect... Read more

10 Aug 2020

57mins

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Why Studying Keynes Is More Important Than Ever

Why Studying Keynes Is More Important Than Ever

In response to the economic crisis, governments around the world have engaged in stimulative policies that might be char... Read more

13 Jul 2020

56mins

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How Poker Explains the Battle of Passive and Active Investing

How Poker Explains the Battle of Passive and Active Investing

Among the biggest trends in the world of markets is the rise of passive investing. Rather than pay high fees to active m... Read more

17 Feb 2017

29mins

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How The Government Can Guarantee Everyone A Job And Fix The Unemployment Crisis Immediately

How The Government Can Guarantee Everyone A Job And Fix The Unemployment Crisis Immediately

Officially, the US unemployment rate stands at 11%. This is higher than the worst levels of the financial crisis. And th... Read more

9 Jul 2020

46mins

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How the Number One U.S. Semiconductor Company Stumbled

How the Number One U.S. Semiconductor Company Stumbled

For years, Intel has been the pre-eminent U.S. semiconductor company. But lately, the company has stumbled. This past su... Read more

30 Nov 2020

42mins

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43: Seinfeld Can Teach You Everything You Need About Economics

43: Seinfeld Can Teach You Everything You Need About Economics

The hit show Seinfeld is often referred to as the show about nothing, but maybe it's actually a show all about economics... Read more

29 Aug 2016

21mins

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Why Value Investing Has Been Doing Terribly

Why Value Investing Has Been Doing Terribly

One of the oldest, most basic strategies in investing is value investing, which, for lack of a better way to put it, mea... Read more

2 Sep 2019

38mins

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The World's Foremost Expert Explains How To Value Stock

The World's Foremost Expert Explains How To Value Stock

In this age of algorithms and quants, you hear less and less about good old stock picking. You know, like the style of i... Read more

20 Nov 2017

30mins

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51: Why Everyone Is Freaking Out About Globalization

51: Why Everyone Is Freaking Out About Globalization

Dani Rodrik, a professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University, was writing about the downside of glo... Read more

21 Oct 2016

33mins

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Michael Saylor, the CEO Who Turned a Software Company Into a Bitcoin Company

Michael Saylor, the CEO Who Turned a Software Company Into a Bitcoin Company

This past summer, the business intelligence software company MicroStrategy made waves when it put some of its extra cash... Read more

24 Dec 2020

1hr 15mins

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62: How The Biggest Bull Market Could Come Crashing Down

62: How The Biggest Bull Market Could Come Crashing Down

The stock market is currently in one of its longest bull markets ever, but that doesn't hold a candle to what's going on... Read more

13 Jan 2017

27mins

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This Is What All Great Stock Market Bubbles And Crashes Have in Common

This Is What All Great Stock Market Bubbles And Crashes Have in Common

Markets are at their most exciting when they're in a bubble. Spectacular fortunes can be made and lost in the blink of a... Read more

28 Aug 2017

28mins

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How Nearly Two Decades Of Fed Policy Contributed To Bubbles, Busts, And A Boom In Debt

How Nearly Two Decades Of Fed Policy Contributed To Bubbles, Busts, And A Boom In Debt

Many people like to claim that the Federal Reserve is responsible for the high degree of leverage and speculation in the... Read more

9 Dec 2019

32mins

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Michael Hudson On Why The US Risks Becoming The Next Greece

Michael Hudson On Why The US Risks Becoming The Next Greece

In the wake of the Great Financial Crisis, you heard a lot of talk about the US becoming like Greece unless the budget d... Read more

12 Oct 2020

53mins

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This Is Why The China Bubble Never Seems To Pop

This Is Why The China Bubble Never Seems To Pop

For years and years, the Chinese economy has been characterized as a bubble, with too much debt, and a history of badly ... Read more

29 Jun 2020

38mins

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