How Radical Demographic Shifts Around The World Are Changing How Assets Are Valued
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 be a function of growth, margins, interest rates, a...
22 Tammi 201825min
This Explains Why Modern Markets Developed Where They Did
For centuries, markets were highly-personalized things, often controlled by select groups of people who traded based on long-established and closely-knit relationships. Closed networks -- such as merc...
15 Tammi 201828min
This Is What It Was Actually Like To Live Through The Tech Bubble
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 lives get caught up directly in the craziness? On ...
8 Tammi 201826min
These Will Be The Big Markets And Economics Stories In 2018
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, for this week's episode, we look ahead. Chris an...
2 Tammi 201813min
These Were The Biggest Markets And Economics Stories of 2017
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 Boesler of Bloomberg News to discuss what they saw as...
26 Joulu 201713min
This Is How Algorithms Impact Every Aspect Of Our Lives, from News to Credit Scores to Stocks
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's episode of the Odd Lots podcast, we speak with ...
18 Joulu 201731min
Two Researchers Explain How Quants Are Going To Revolutionize Long-Term Investing
When we think of computer-driven or "quant" investing, we often think fast moves, algorithms making buy and sell orders at incredibly short timeframes. So in theory, the likes of great long-term inves...
11 Joulu 201733min
An MIT Professor Explains His Original Theory For How Markets Really Work
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 basically impossible to beat the market, because all info...
4 Joulu 201727min
