Coming Soon: The Pay Check Season 3
More than 150 years after the end of slavery in the U.S., the net worth of a typical white family is nearly six times greater than that of the average Black family. Season 3 of The Pay Check digs into...
5 Maalis 20213min
Zoltan Pozsar on What Just Happened with the Treasury Market
The Treasury market just experienced what some might call a tantrum. Across the yield curve, we saw rates shoot up. And it's not even clear why it happened. There was no comment from a Fed official li...
4 Maalis 202143min
Howard Lindzon Tells Us Why He Launched His Own SPAC
SPACs, sometimes referred to as blank check companies, are incredibly hot. After being a sort of sleepy and sometimes sketchy backwater of the finance world, the last several months have seen them go ...
1 Maalis 202158min
How Chinese Buying Is Causing a Boom in Agricultural Commodities
There are lots of hot areas in the market, which everybody knows. Stocks are obviously hot, as are industrial commodities like copper. Agricultural commodities are surging as well. If you look at a ch...
25 Helmi 202138min
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 semiconductors, hampering their ability to manufacture their goods and generate sales...
22 Helmi 202145min
A Value Manager on How Most Value Managers Are Getting It All Wrong
As you might have heard, so-called value investing has not had a good run. At least from a quantitative standpoint, strategies that aim to buy low-valued stocks (based on metrics such as price-to-earn...
18 Helmi 20211h 1min
How Boring Food and Beverage Companies Turn into Huge Stock Winners Year after Year
During the worst of the pandemic, people loaded up on staples from their grocery store. Shelf-stable food items, beverages, canned tuna, canned soup, chips... all that kind of stuff. But the big food ...
17 Helmi 202146min
How Monster Beverage Shares Soared a Monster 100,000% in the Last 20 Years
When you think about the big winners in the stock market over the past couple of decades, you might think about Amazon or Apple or some other tech winner. Or maybe, if you've listened to Odd Lots befo...
15 Helmi 202152min
