The NYC Fiscal Crisis Of The 1970s Has Some Important Lessons For Today
In the 1970s, NYC teetered on the verge of bankruptcy. This crisis lead to the dismantling of the city's generous social safety net. On this week's Odd Lots podcast, we speak to Kim Phillips-Fein, his...
26 Feb 201831min
How One Of The Most Profitable Trades Of The Last Few Years Blew Up In A Single Day
In recent years, one of the easiest ways to make money in this market has been to bet on low volatility. Up until recently, markets have been exceptionally tranquil, and trades predicated on that tran...
19 Feb 201827min
Annie Duke Explains How To Apply Poker Skills To Markets And Other Business Decisions
Anyone who watched poker on TV during the golden age of coverage a few years ago is familiar with Annie Duke. She's one of the most famous poker players of the era, and is one of the winningest women ...
12 Feb 201831min
Why One Of The Most Successful Quant Funds Decided To Create Its Own Video Game
Quantitative finance is red hot. These days, basically everyone (banks, hedge funds etc.) is hiring mathematicians and coders. So what differentiates one quant shop from any other? On this week's epis...
6 Feb 201829min
How The Opioid Crisis And The Trump Administration Are Changing Middle America's Economy
If you cover the economy from New York City or Abu Dhabi, it's easy to get caught up in a media bubble. But the U.S. economy is obviously not a monolith. On this week's episode of the Odd Lots podcast...
29 Jan 201826min
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 Jan 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 Jan 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 Jan 201826min
